{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3570", "width": "2237", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "mm\\n.C \u00c2\u00ab:v C\\nLIBRARY 0^ CONGRESS\\nr 1 Copyright Ko..^\\n-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0c ::x!.m c\\nCC. ;\u00c2\u00abL\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA\\nA C\\nV 1^ CC\\nc\\nCC\\n:cc.,c c c^x\\nc _ cc c", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "fitt\\n^A C ^CC (ccc.-\\n^^S^o", "height": "3267", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3267", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3267", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "M\\n^^5\\n\u00c2\u00a3^^^^f^^^s3S^\\n^t\\n1 n\\n^r^\\n^^fTttp,\\nBA LLQT^\\nP^^i\\n^#il\\nPUBLISHED AND FOR SALE BY\\nALBERT HOBART, Rockland, Mass.\\n__ PRICE 25 OENTS", "height": "3252", "width": "2206", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL\\nTHUNDERBOLTS\\nSEARCH-LIGHTS TURNED ON\\nWITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR\\nA TWO YEARS TRIP\\n\\\\v\\nl()\\\\i:ring every state in the\\nUNION\\nASTONISHING FACTS\\nrockland, mass.\\nAlbert Hobakt, Publisher\\n1900", "height": "3267", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "XWO COPIES RECEiVexJ,\\nLibnry of e^fii^eliii\\nUif\\\\Q 9f till\\nM\u00c2\u00abv 2 1900\\nE~7/i\\n61465\\nCopyright, 1900\\nBY\\nALBERT HOBART\\nStCOND COPY,", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe author is solicitous in offering this book to the\\npublic to awaken the American people, if possible, to\\nthe fact that they are drifting along, unconsciously, into the\\nsame channels and into the same conditions as exist among\\nthe old countries of Europe, and get them to realize that\\nmillionaires are in full control of the law-making power.\\nAnd so long as they allow them to make the laws they must\\nexpect them to make such laws as will be for their mutual\\nbenefit, and against the interest of the working class.\\nIt is the wish of the author that they realize the fact\\nthat the annexation of Hawaii, the war with Spain, and the\\neffort now being made to annex Porto Rico and the PhiJ-\\nippine Islands, is the work of our American millionaires,\\nthat they may secure a reservoir of cheap labor in the\\nUnited States, and get control of the sugar, hemp, and\\ntobacco business.\\nIt is his desire that they realize that thousands of our\\nAmerican boys have been sacrificed in Cuba and the Philip-\\npines for the benefit of trust companies and corporations.\\nIt is also his desire to show the American people that\\nwhenever they compete with the foreigner, who comes to", "height": "3267", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "iv PREFACE.\\nour country, or with the products of the cheap labor of for-\\neigners, they must work as cheaply as they or not at all.\\nIt is his wish to awaken the young American to the\\nrealization of the fact that in half the States in the Union\\nforeigners, who cannot speak or read the English language,\\ncan vote in six months after they land, while they are\\nobliged to wait until they arrive to the age of twenty-one\\nyears. The facts as given in this little book and conditions\\nnamed are just as the author found them in every State in\\nthe Union. He cares nothing for criticism, but offers the\\nbook without fear or favor.\\nThe Author.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER L\\nAMERICA AS WE FIND IT IN 1897.\\nHURRAH for Fourth of July, 1897! The\\ngrand procession has just passed. Every\\nflag has been flung to the breeze, and Old Glory\\nrules the town. Over ten thousand men in line.\\nThe old veterans with their gray locks marched\\nproudly in front, then came the State Guards, the\\nFiremen, tlie Boys Brigade, and many more that\\ncould not be classed. Behind, sitting proudly in\\nhis barouche, came the orator of the day. It was\\nenough to thrill the heart of any American.\\nLet us follow them to the grand park, and learn\\nsomething more about this magnificent country in\\nwhich we live, our free American institutions, and\\nour independent and happy people where the\\nlaboring man owns his own home, is the best paid,\\nthe best housed, and the best clothed of any peo-\\nple under God s shining sun. Everybody cheered.\\nThe band played America, and the speaker was\\nintroduced as the Hon. Jas. P. Stockwell, member\\nof Congress from Stebbinsville. He told us about\\nthis grand, splendid country, the great plains, the", "height": "3267", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "6 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nsublime mountains, the great, rushing, roaring\\nrivers, and shores lashed by two oceans; about\\nthe declaration of independence, and that every\\nman was born free and equal. He told us about\\nliberty, fraternity, and equality. He told us about\\nthe magnificent statue of Liberty, bearing upon its\\nforehead the glittering and shining star of progress\\nabout a united and happy people. He told us\\nabout the American homes being filled with sun-\\nshine and joy of the prosperity and patriotism of\\nour people about a country where the withered\\nhand of want was never known and I said the\\nHon. Jas. P. Stockwell, member of Congress from\\nStebbinsville, has lied. The withered hand of\\nwant is known in America by millions of American\\npeople, and the year 1897 has seen more suffering\\nand want throughout this country than ever before\\nin all her history.\\nFor proof of this assertion let us note the clip-\\npings from our own American papers. The fol-\\nlowing is from the Chicago Chronicle of January\\n26, 1897:\\nFifty thousand persons are in want in the city\\nof Chicago. Three hundred thousand are pinched\\nthrough lack of steady employment. These figures\\nare estimated as the result of one day s relief work\\nby the police force, and are believed to be con-\\nservative. There is a wide difference between the\\ntwo classes represented. The 50,000 named are\\nthose who are suffering from the want of fuel and", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 7\\nfood in the 300,000 are embraced those of the\\nworking classes who have little or no work through\\nthe stagnation in business and manufacturing\\nlines.\\nHere is a report from New York, headed\\nThousands out of work, Tramps on the in-\\ncrease. I will give it to you word for word as\\ntaken from the paper dated June 20, 1897:\\nReports collected from every section of the\\ncountry show that there is now a vast army of\\ntramps spread over the United States. In almost\\nevery instance the increase in the number of wan-\\nderers has been due to the non-appearance of Mc-\\nKinley s promised prosperity. The total number\\nof tramps at present in the United States, accord-\\ning to the most conservative estimates, is fixed at\\n336.250. Of these, by far the larger portion are\\nmen honestly looking for work. The greater num-\\nber seem to center about New York and Illinois.\\nThe summary by States is as follows:\\nMaine 800\\nNew Hampshire. i ,000\\nX ermont 500\\nMassachusetts 3,000\\nRhode Island 200\\nConnecticut 2,500\\nIndiana 33,000\\nOhio 5,000\\nTennessee 3,000\\nKentucky 4,000\\nMississippi i ,500\\nAlabama 200\\nNew York i 10,000 1 Iowa 400\\nNew Jersey 10,000 j Missouri 12,000\\nPennsylvania 10,000 1 Louisiana 1,000\\nMaryland i ,000 Texas i ,400\\nDelaware 900 1 North Dakota i ,000\\nVirginia i ,203 Nebraska 5,000\\nWest Virginia 700 Kansas 10,000\\nNorth Carolina 3,000 Montana 2,000", "height": "3267", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8\\nPOLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nSouth Carolina.\\nGeorgia\\nFlorida\\nWisconsin\\nMichigan\\nIllinois\\nloo\\n3,000\\n4,000\\n5,000\\n3,000\\n58, 000\\nIdaho\\nWyoming.\\nUtah\\nColorado\\nWashington\\nCalifornia\\n2,000\\n1,000\\n250\\n600\\n1,000\\n5,000\\nOne deplorable feature of the reports received\\nis that crime has been greatly increased, because\\nso many men are without employment. In this\\nState, as an illustration, police officials and author-\\nities of penal institutions declare that the number\\nof tramps has doubled since last year. Conserva-\\ntive estimates based on official figures show that\\nthis year New York State has 110,000 tramps.\\nRecords from all over the country show that the\\noffenses usually committed by tramps, such as\\npetit larceny and vagrancy, have doubled this year\\nover figures of last year.\\nWilliam McMahon, for eighteen years superin-\\ntendent of the Pittsburg Bethel Association of the\\nWestern Seamen s Friend Society, said to-day at\\nPittsburg\\nI am satisfied the increase in crime can be\\ntraced to the increasing number of unemployed,\\nhungry men, not only here, but all over the coun-\\ntry. The recent gathering in Buffalo is an omi-\\nnous cloud that will break and cause much trouble\\nin this country in a few years.\\nIt is estimated that tramps in Pennsylvania\\nnumber at least 60,000.\\nThere has been such a marked increase in", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 9\\ncrime of all kinds, especially theft, forgery and\\nburglary in West Virginia, in most cases traceable\\nto the inability of the people to make both ends\\nmeet, that the directors of the State penitentiary\\nhave asked for bids for cell-rooms to accommo-\\ndate 100 more prisoners.\\nOf the 3000 tramps in North Carolina most of\\nthem are said to have come from the West and\\nNorth. Robust men, laborers, and tradesmen,\\ndaily plod along the streets of the cities seeking\\nemployment, and are willing to work at almost any\\nprice. J. W. S. Hervey, painter and contractor,\\nsays that first-class workmen of his trade at Wil-\\nmington would be glad to get employment at fifty\\ncents a day. Disheartened men, many of whom\\nhave dependent families, are forced to become\\ntramps, and are leaving the cities to seek employ-\\nment elsewhere to get bread.\\nThis is not all. We find the following from Mil-\\nwaukee, Wis., under the same day (June 20th)\\nAt least ten per cent, of the adult male popu-\\nlation of Milwaukee is idle, and thousands of men\\nwalk the streets daily in search of work. The sit-\\nuation has been relieved somewhat, during the past\\nsix weeks, through the usual resumption of build-\\ning operations in the spring; but there are still\\nabout 12,000 persons receiving aid from the\\ncounty. Tramps were never so numerous in Mil-\\nwaukee and throughout the State as during the\\npast winter, when they swarmed nightly to the jails", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nand police stations in search of lodgings. The\\nwarm weather, however, has enabled these way-\\nfarers to sleep in open air, and every night the\\nparks in the neighborhood of Milwaukee furnished\\nlodgings for hundreds of idle men.\\nThere have been only a few instances of riot-\\nous demonstrations on the part of tramps in Wis-\\nconsin towns. This is attributed by the police to\\nthe good character of most of the men. Inspector\\nMiller of the Central Police Station says that the\\nmajority of men provided with lodgings in the\\nvarious police stations of Milwaukee were all able-\\nbodied and intelligent mechanics, who had been\\nout of employment for a long time, and had\\ntramped over a large portion of the country look-\\ning for work. He says that among their number\\nwere included a surprisingly large number of\\nfarmers and farm laborers.\\nReports from the mining districts of Lake Su-\\nperior reveal a similar story of suffering among\\npeople who are willing and anxious to work. That\\nthere have been so few depredations in the absence\\nof any measures for the relief of this vast traveling\\narmy of the unemployed is surprising.\\nThat is what they said in Wisconsin on June 20,\\n1897. But this is not all. Here is an article from\\nMichigan, headed, Thousands Idle in Detroit, and\\nthis is dated Detroit, Mich., June 20th. It says:\\nMichigan tramps are a well-behaved lot.\\nThere are something like 3,000 of these gentry", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. n\\nscattered through the 600 towns and villages in the\\nState. They commit the petty depredations gen-\\nerally credited to tramps the country over. In the\\ncountry hen-roosts suffer as they do in the vicinity\\nof camp meetings, when the colored brother is\\nworshiping his God by shouting and prayer. De-\\ntroit is unusually free from the pest. There are\\nseveral thousand men in this town out of work.\\nThere is no denying the question that the\\ntimes, despite the promises of protection and pros-\\nperity, are hard. The other day a down-town\\nstreet was torn up preparatory to repaving. The\\napplicants for work outnumbered the lucky few\\nforty to one.\\nOnly think of it forty applicants for every job\\nin the State of Michigan; and it is the same all\\nover the country.\\nHere is another from St. Louis under the same\\ndate\\nStatistics of the Provident Association and\\nother benevolent societies here show that never be-\\nfore has there been such widespread destitution as\\nat the present time. This want was, of course,\\nmore acute during the winter months, but it exists\\nnow, although it is scattered over a greater terri-\\ntory, and is not so intrusive. Thousands of men\\nwho eked out a miserable existence with the assist-\\nance of organized charity during the winter, are\\nnow scattered over the country adjacent to St.\\nLouis. With the advent of warm weather they", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nhave taken to the fields, where they may manage\\nto shift for themselves by dint of depredation and\\npetty robbery.\\nReports from the interior of Missouri indicate\\nthat the country is infested with tramps to a de-\\ngree unknown heretofore. Farmers complain that\\ntheir meager possessions are no longer safe unless\\nunceasing watch is kept, and in some cases the\\nwandering mendicants do not hesitate to resort to\\nviolence. In fact, the tramps have put on a bold\\nfront this year, and demand what they were for-\\nmerly wont to beg. Some murders, and numerous\\nminor outrages, have been reported since the\\ntramping season set in.\\nIt is a matter of statistical record that the des-\\ntitution in St. Louis during the winter just ended\\nwas unprecedented. The organized charities dis-\\nbursed more than double the usual sum, and re-\\ncently issued an urgent call for additional funds to\\nkeep pace with increasing want. During the cold\\nweather the number of hold-ups was alarming, but\\nthe advent of summer has relieved the situation\\nsomewhat in the city.\\nThat was the condition in Missouri, and that is\\nnot as bad as the reports from some other points.\\nHere is one from Spring Valley, Illinois. After\\nyou read it I think you will agree with me in say-\\ning that the Hon. Jas. P. Stockwell, from Stebbins-\\nville, lied when he told us this was the best coun-\\ntry in the world, and that her working people were", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I 3\\nthe best clothed, best fed, and best housed. Here\\nis the report\\nThere is no work for tramps, even for their\\nboard, as fully one-half of regular labor employed\\nin this section is to-day idle, and the other half\\nworking at half wages on half time. The condi-\\ntions at present are deplorable; worse, in fact, than\\never experienced in this section. There is much\\nsuffering among the poor, and county aid is doled\\nout very sparingly; families of four, five, and six,\\ngetting but from four to eight dollars a month to\\nlive on. Many of the miners who were earning\\nfair wages here a year ago have gone back to Eu-\\nrope to remain there until the expected good\\ntimes arrive. In this locality alone fully 500 men\\nhave returned to the old country, most of them to\\nItaly.\\nThat was the situation on June 20, 1897, at\\nSpring Valley, Illinois. Men going back to Eu-\\nrope to better their condition. If times improve\\nin the next few years they will all return in time to\\nvote for Bryan in 1900.\\nHere is one from the New York World on the\\ncondition of workwomen at Paterson. It says\\nThere are women in the flax mills at Paterson\\nwho work ten hours a day ankle deep in dirty\\nwater, and breathe an atmosphere like that of a\\nTurkish bath. They receive $5.70 a week. There\\nare other women in these same mills who work\\nten hours a day, and with every breath take into", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ntheir lungs a fine dust that breeds early death, as\\nas surely as do germs. They receive $4.50 a\\nweek.\\nThis is not all. Here is another on the homes\\nof the New York poor\\nThe alleged home of a New York tenement\\nhouse worker consists, usually, of two small rooms\\npoorly lighted, the sanitary conditions of which is\\na mockery and disgrace to our modern civilization.\\nThe family live, eat, sleep, and make cigars in these\\npest-holes called homes. Little children are\\ncompelled to eke out an existence in the midst of\\nsuch surroundings, living in an atmosphere reeking\\nwith foul air and the fumes of tobacco in its vari-\\nous stages of preparation, and a moral atmosphere\\nwhich appeals to humanity for redress.\\nHere is one from St. Louis, sent as a special to\\nthe Chicago Re cord y]\\\\xw 23, 1897. This caps the\\nclimax:\\nSo weak from starvation that she was unable\\nto walk Mrs. Kate Haffner, aged sixty-three years,\\nwas taken to the hospital to-day. She had been\\ntrying to earn her living by making jean trousers\\nat fifteen cents a dozen. She could only earn\\neight cents a day, and was starving when discov-\\nered by the neighbors.\\nThe Song of the Shirt was written in 1857.\\nCannot some one give us the song of the breeches\\nfor 1897? Go where you may in this land of the\\nfree and home of the brave, east, west, north or", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "yS^J^Qp TU-DLBVUfL.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCOMPETING FOR THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD BY MAKING PANTS\\nAT 15 CTS. PER DOZEN.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I 5\\nsouth, and you find the laboring people in nearly\\nthe same condition as this St. Louis woman. A\\nthousand volumes of this size could be filled, giv-\\ning the sad conditions of working men and work-\\ning women in the United States, and then the half\\nwould not be told.\\nLet me give you a letter written by Secretary\\nRyan of the United Mine Workers of Braidwood,\\nIllinois, to Senator Mason. The labor man ap-\\npeals to the senator to abandon his war with\\nSpain over Cuba, and turn to the misery at home.\\nHe says\\nAllow me to call your attention to the fact\\nthat 40,000 of your constituents are waging an\\nunequal contest in their battle for bread. I allude\\nto the coal miners of the State of Illinois, who are\\nnow in a state of semi-starvation, brought about\\nby a series of circumstances over which they have\\nno control. The insane system of competition in-\\naugurated by the coal operators many of whom\\noccupy front pews in our leading churches has\\nbrought about a condition of suffering and desti-\\ntution among the miners which has never been\\nequalled in the world.\\nWe have been forced to accept reduction after\\nreduction in the price of mining until the price\\nnow being paid is so low that miners cannot earn\\nover seventy-five cents a day on an average, and\\nthen the miners work only about half the time.\\nSupposing we put the average wage at $1.00 per", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "1 6 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nday, and the miners work three days per week,\\nthis would give the miners about $12.00 a month,\\nwhich is a fair average.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Taking a family of five, the good housewife\\nmust furnish fifteen single meals or 450 meals per\\nmonth. Dividing $12.00 by 450 we find that the\\nminer s wife has the magnificent sum of 2 and f^cts.\\nper meal. This is not taking into consideration the\\nfact that people in mining communities wear\\nclothes, pay house rents, doctor bills, and several\\nother items of expense too numerous to mention.\\nThere is no laboring man on earth who works\\nharder or who needs more good, substantial food\\nthan the miner, and we find he is compelled to\\nlabor all day, sometimes in mud and water, on\\nfood furnished at less than eight cents per meal.\\nThe Cuban patriot who is battling for his freedom\\nis not exposed to any more hardships or danger\\nthan is the man who goes down into the bowels of\\nthe earth in search of the black diamonds and I\\ndoubt if there have been any more lives lost or\\nsoldiers wounded in the Cuban army than there\\nhave been miners killed or injured in the mines of\\nIllinois since the insurrection commenced.\\nI am certain there are no more women or chil-\\ndren hungry in Cuba at this moment than you will\\nfind among the miners families in Illinois.\\nThe officials of the United Mine Workers of\\nIllinois have made four unsuccessful attempts to\\ninterview Governor Tanner on this question. Each", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 1/\\ntime he was too busy. Between Allen bills, gas\\nbills, and apportionment bills, his time was all\\ntaken up. He has already forgotten the pledges\\nhe made last fall when threshing around after votes.\\nHoping this appeal to you may not fall on deaf\\nears.\\nHow is it possible for men all over this country\\nlike the Hon. Jas. P. Stockwell, from Stebbinsville,\\nto come before the people with such swash it\\nseems mockery.\\nEven in the Southern States where the people\\nought to be prosperous if anywhere, living as they\\ndo in a climate that requires so little to keep them\\nat least comfortable, we find it no better. The\\nsmall farmers who rent land are is debt.\\n4f Two years ago with the largest cotton crop ever\\nraised not one in ten paid out at the end of the\\nyear. Where land can be bought at from one tc\\nfive dollars per acre it is impossible for men rent\\ning land ever to accumulate enough to own a farm\\nof their own, unless the conditions are change^^\\nThe over production of cotton has brought tn-\\nprice to a point where it is no longer profitable to\\nraise it. The cry over the South for the past four\\nyears has been, Reduce the acreage of cotton.\\nEvery paper in the Southern States has been\\nurging this plan, and asking the farmer to diversify\\nhis crops. Conventions have been held in nearly\\nevery cotton State to devise plans for this reduc-\\ntion in acreage of cotton. But what can they do", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "1 8 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nto reduce it? the South is not a corn country, or a\\nwheat country. The average crop of corn per\\nacre throughout the South is only a little above\\ntwelve bushels, while the average in Kansas, Iowa,\\nIllinois, and Nebraska is over forty bushels. How\\ncan the South compete with these States in the\\nmarkets Simply impossible yet the South has\\nbeen compelled to increase their acreage of corn\\nin order to have bread. Not one renter of land in\\nten in the Southern States have wheat bread more\\nthan once a week corn bread is their staple.\\nNotwithstanding their yield is only thirteen bushels\\nper acre they are forced by the low price of sugar\\nand cotton to raise corn, and we find the prediction\\nalready made that the cotton and sugar States will\\nproduce this year the enormous amount of 500,-\\n000,000 bushels; thus showing the large increase\\nin corn acreage in the cotton and sugar States.\\nThe Western States are in as bad conditions as\\nthe South. Corn brings only about twelve to four-\\nteen cents per bushel at the farms in Kansas, Iowa,\\nor Nebraska. The crop of 1896 was the largest\\never raised. The yield was enormous, yet the en-\\ntire crops on thousands of farms in these States\\ndid not sell for enough to pay the rent. This is\\nno dream. I have the names of many of them.\\nCan you tell me how it is possible for a farmer\\nrenting land in these States to ever own a farm,\\nwhen with the largest crops ever raised on the land\\nwould not sell for enough money to pay the rent?", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 1 9\\nIf you can, I will be greatly obliged. The farmer\\nwho sells his milk to the creameries has not re-\\nceived enough out of it to pay fair wages for milk-\\ning. Only think of a farmer getting out of bed at\\ntwo o clock in the morning with the thermometer\\nfifteen degrees below zero, milk his cows and then\\ncart it from eight to ten miles for seven cents per\\ngallon Can you tell me how long it will take\\nthat man to pay for a farm?\\nThe Chicago Chronicle has told you about the\\nconditions in the North. They tell you that one-\\nfourth of the entire population of Chicago are\\nunable to earn bread where they are willing to\\nwork. God knows it is as bad as it can be\\nIn the East it is just the same, The New York\\nWorld XgWs you 1 10,000 men are out of work, and\\non the tramp factories closed, and wages cut.\\nYou must not think that these times are only\\neffecting those who labor with their hands. The\\nwages of all clerks in every city and town in this\\ncountry have been cut so low that it is impossible\\nfor them to save a dollar. They are obliged to\\ndress well in order to hold their positions, and in\\nninety-nine cases out of every hundred it is all\\nthey can do to keep up. The average pay of the\\nclerks in the United States is not more than ninety\\ncents a day. Young men are working from six\\no clock in the morning until nine o clock at night\\nin thousands of stores all over this land for from\\nfifteen to twenty dollars per month. If they should", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nquit there would be fifty applications to every job.\\nThe traveling men everywhere have been cut\\nnearly one-half, and thousands of old men are\\nwithout a job of any kind. Young men out of\\nwork at the factories are bidding for the places of\\nthe old men. They are bright, well-educated, and\\nknow the business. They are out of work, and\\nthey take what they can get. It is the same in\\nevery branch of trade. It is worse with the man-\\nufacturers. I am confident that seventy-five per\\ncent, of all the manufacturers of this country have\\nlost money the past three years, and fully one-half\\nof the balance have not more than kept even.\\nThousands of mechanics have left the shops, and\\ntaken to the fields. More corn has been raised in\\nNew England than ever before, notwithstanding\\nthe low price. Land that had not been turned for\\nforty years has been planted with corn. You\\ndon t know why, do you Well I can tell you.\\nBecause the poor fellows were out of work, and\\ncould not get a job at any price. This forced\\nthem to raise corn.\\nThe same may be said of the South. The\\nSouthern people could not make a living raising\\ncotton and sugar, and were forced to raise corn\\nand wheat in order to live. Carpenters, brick-\\nmasons, clerks, railroad men, traveling men,\\nschool-teachers, and men from every conceivable\\noccupation have been forced into the fields to raise\\ncorn and wheat, and still there are men who won-", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 21\\nder why the price of corn, wheat, and cotton is at\\na low figure. I am surprised that corn will bring\\nten cents in Kansas. I am surprised that cotton\\nbrings four to five cents per pound in the South.\\nI am surprised that there is any market for it at\\nall. And when the corn, wheat, and cotton plant-\\ners of this country learn some sense the price\\nmay advance, and not till then.\\nInterest on deposits at the banks have been re-\\nduced frcm five and six per cent, to four per cent.,\\nand the banks are full of money in every county in\\nthis land. No one wants to build anything. No\\none wants to buy land. No one wants to do busi-\\nness if he can get out, and it would have been\\nbetter for thousands of merchants if they had\\nstopped business four years ago, and lived off their\\ncapital. They would have had more money to-\\nday. Thus we have summed up the conditions\\nof this country as it has been the past four years,\\nand the Hon. Jas. P. Stockwell lied when he told\\nus that this was the best country in the world.\\nThus endeth the first lesson.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IL\\nA VISIT AMONG THE TOILERS.\\nLET us now talk with the hard-handed sons of\\ntoil of this country, and learn from them\\nabout the trouble and hard times. We will go in-\\nto the cotton fields of Georgia and Mississippi,\\nout among the sugar growers of Louisiana and\\nTexas, into the mines of Pennsylvania and the\\nworkshops of New England, out among the corn\\nfields of Illinois and Iowa. We will visit the\\nwheat growers of Minnesota and the Dakotas.\\nWe will talk with the men who run the trains, and\\nthe men who forge the iron and steel with the\\nclerks and porters in the stores and warehouses.\\nWe will meet the traveling men on the trains, and\\nwe will talk with the leaders of the labor organiza-\\ntions. Let us learn from their own lips about this\\ntrouble and the remedy.\\nListen for a moment to Eugene V. Debs. He\\nsays:\\nIt is to change existing conditions, and to find\\nwork for the unemployed that our new movement", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 23\\nhas been started. The crisis is supreme. Some-\\nthing must be done, and that at once. There is\\nno hope of relief from Congress. The American\\nRailway Union will move on peaceful and patriotic\\nlines to solve the problem. To find labor and\\nfood for tens of thousands now in distress is our\\naim. There is room for all in the West, and we\\npropose to get them there. That tramps are un-\\nusually numerous this year is the direct result of\\nthe protective tariff system. So long as this coun-\\ntry fosters unhealthy over-production by means of\\nthe tariff, we will have the tramp issue in ever in-\\ncreasing force to wrestle with.\\nThat is what Eugene V. Debs says, and remem-\\nber he is President of the American Railway\\nUnion.\\nNow I wish to give you the explanation, as\\nmade by Joseph Greenhut, City Statistician, for\\nthe remarkable army of tramps that is sweeping\\nover the Western country this year. He says\\nFactory hands and mechanics must face an es-\\ntablished condition of affairs which is well under-\\nstood by all thinking men who have studied the\\nsituation. Under a protective tariff factories, and\\nother places where labor is employed, have in-\\ncreased in number until their product is larger\\nthan the demand. The result is these workshops\\ncannot be kept running on full time. Hours are\\nshortened, and in many places employment is\\ngiven for only seven or eight months in the year.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nThose who are provident may be able to tide\\nthemselves over this idle season. Those who are\\nnot must get out and seek new fields of labor.\\nThus we have the tramp, not the chronic, idling\\nvagabond, but honest mechanics on the hunt for\\nwork. These are unusually numerous this year\\nfrom the cause given, and the conditions will grow\\nworse instead of better, until a radical remedy is\\napplied. This remedy, I think, lies in free trade,\\nand the narrowing of production to meet actual\\ndemands.\\nThis is the cause and the remedy as given by\\nJoseph Greenhut, and I advise you to read it the\\nsecond time. Do not forget that he tells you the\\ntramps are honest mechanics on the hunt for\\nwork.\\nWe will now go out among the farmers of Kan-\\nsas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and the Dakotas.\\nThe question I asked them was: What do you\\nwant to bring you prosperity? The answer was\\nprompt and decided, We want a higher price for\\nour corn and wheat. Well, then, if you could\\nget the prices for your corn, wheat, and other\\nproduce you did a few years ago, you would be all\\nright, would you Yes, they said we could\\nthen live and save something. A few years ago\\nI have known men to buy a farm in this State and\\npay for it in six or seven years now we could not\\nraise money enough to pay interest on the mort-\\ngage. Yes, my friends, I said, but interest is", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 25\\nlower now, and everything you buy is low. We\\nknow it is, but not in proportion to what we pro-\\nduce. Well what do you think is the matter\\nI asked. Why, they said the monetary sys-\\ntem of our Government is against the working\\npeople. We need more money, and with free\\ncoinage of silver, on a ratio of sixteen to one, it\\nwould give us more money. There would be more\\nmoney in circulation, and we could get more\\nfor our grain. The laws of this country are all\\nmade by the rich men for the rich men. They\\nare taking the life s blood from the poor. They\\nare buying up all the land, and hold it at prices\\nthey know a man can never pay. The manu-\\nfacturers with their tariff for protection dictate to\\nus the prices we shall pay. Wall Street together\\nwith the trusts and railroads run the country.\\nThis is the substance taken from sixty-four con-\\nversations with farmers in the above States.\\nNow let us go East and talk with the employees\\nof the factories. On my arrival in Boston there\\nwas to be a meeting of Union Labor, and thinking\\nwe might learn something new we walked overto the\\nhall. That big fellow with the plug hat smoking\\nthat cigar is the speaker. But, says my friend,\\nthat man is not a laboring man is he? Oh,\\nno he is the President of the Union. He has\\n$5,000 a year to tell them when they shall strike,\\nand make a speech once in a while. The time\\nhas come, replied my friend, when no man can", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nbecome a senator or congressman in this country\\nunless he be a millionaire. They buy the office at\\nten times its value, and make millions by the pur-\\nchase. They demonetized our silver the poor\\nman s money in 1873, and they are not even\\nnow satisfied. They cut our wages, and if we\\nstrike they then turn the guns of the country upon\\nus, and shoot us down like dogs. They impose a\\nduty upon us on everything we eat or wear. It is\\ntime to take matters into our own hands, and fight\\nfor our rights.\\nWe visited a number of the factory towns in New\\nEngland, and found many out of employment en-\\ntirely, and others working on half time. We\\nsaw a man coming out of one of the factories, and\\nas he looked like a sensible fellow we interviewed\\nhim. I see you have just come out of that fac-\\ntory, do you work there? Yes; I have worked\\nthere over fifteen years. I do not have work but\\nthree days a week now. How is your wages\\ncompared with four years ago? I can only\\nearn $1.25 a day now, while four years ago I could\\nearn $2.50 a day. I work by the piece, and if\\nthey keep on cutting the price every month there\\nis no telling what they will want us to work for\\nafter a while. Well, what do you think is the\\ntrouble? Why; the bosses want to make more\\nmoney, and every time they cut our wages that is\\nso much in their pocket. But I see that factory\\nacross the street is closed, what is the matter with", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 2/\\nthem? *Oh, they failed about a year ago, and\\nhave not started up. Do you think they will\\nstart up soon? No; the owner committed sui-\\ncide soon after he failed. Well, I have noticed\\nseveral factories closed about the town. Yes;\\nthey all failed. Do you think the Dingley Tar-\\niff Bill will help business? No; it will only\\nmake things higher, and make it still harder for\\nthe working man. The rich have it their own way.\\nThey can make us work for whatever they please.\\nWhy don t you strike? That would do no\\ngood half the town is idle and waiting for a job\\nat any price. Do you think the free and unlim-\\nited coinage of silver would help you? Yes;\\nif we had more money we would make these fac-\\ntory bosses give us what we wanted.\\nWe next visited the States of Pennsylvania, In-\\ndiana, and Illinois. The great strike of the coal\\nminers was on, and we had the opportunity of\\nwitnessing the great battle of the poor for a chance\\nto exist. Three hundred thousand men on a\\nstrike, and that, too, without the least chance to\\nget their demands. We noticed a crowd of miners\\nstanding on the street corner, and started in at\\nonce to interview them. We introduced ourselves\\nto the one who seemed to be the leader (and, by\\nthe way, about the only one who could speak the\\nEnglish language), and asked him what wages\\nthey had been receiving. He told us the amount,\\nand through him we got the wages of each man.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nThere were thirty-nine in the group, so we made\\nan average of the whole, and found it to be $5.74\\nper week. And taking into consideration the time\\nlost by the closing of the mines the past year we\\nfound the average pay they had received for the\\nyear was just $203.90.\\nThink of this, ye men of America, and think\\nalso that these very men worked hundreds of feet\\nbelow the surface of the earth, where the sunlight\\nof God has never reached. Think, also, that some of\\nthese men had families of from five to six looking\\nto them for support. Then swing to the breeze\\nthe American flag with its forty-four shining stars\\nand shout: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality All\\nthe languages of the world could not describe the\\nagonies suffered by the working men of this coun-\\ntry the past four years. As I stood at Sandy\\nCreek Valley on the 14th day of July, 1897, and\\nlooked at these poor, ignorant miners, I said again\\nthat the Hon. Jas. P. Stockwell, of Stebbinsville,\\nhad lied.\\nI asked these men if they thought they would\\nwin in this strike. They said they were sure to\\nwin if they could prevent new men from taking\\ntheir places. I asked if the men who were taking\\ntheir places came from other mines. They said\\nvery few came from other mines that they were\\nmostly men out of work, tramping around the\\ncountry hunting for a job. I asked if they thought\\nthere was any legislation needed to benefit the", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 29\\nminers. They said Congress should pass laws\\ncompelling the mine owners to pay the men fair\\nwages. They said the mine owners were forming\\ntrusts to make slaves of the men.\\nWe took the train at Spring Valley for a two\\nweeks trip through the South. We met many\\ntraveling men along the route, and questioned\\nthem closely in regard to their trade. We wish to\\nsay right here that the traveling men are the best\\nposted, the most intelligent of any class in the\\nworld. They come in contact with every class of\\npeople. They know the standing of nearly every\\nman in their territory, whether he is making or\\nlosing money, and the reasons why. They know\\nthe condition of the crops, and the prices received.\\nThey read more than any other class of men.\\nThey meet at the hotels and on the trains, and\\ndiscuss every topic of the day, every law of the\\ncountry.\\nWe learned from them that hardly a merchant\\nas far as they knew had made anything the past\\nfour years. They gave me the name of a clothing\\nmerchant living in a town of 25,000 inhabitants\\nwho had plenty of money to run his business, and\\nin past years had made money; but that during\\nthe past four years had lost over a thousand dol-\\nlars a year, and he was considered one of the best\\nbusiness men in their territory. They went on to\\nexplain the cause. When the hard times came on\\nthe smaller dealers began to cut their prices. This", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nthey were obliged to do in order to sell goods\\nenough to meet their bills. After a while many\\nwent to the wall. Their goods were thrown on the\\nmarket and sold at less than half their cost. This\\nof course kept the others from making anything,\\nand finally they too were forced to fail. Not one\\nof all the traveling men we met knew of a single\\nmerchant who had made any money the past three\\nyears.\\nOne gentleman gave me a full statement of his\\nfactory for each year for the past five years, and\\nhere it is For the year ending Jan. i 1 893 profits\\n$12,000. For the year ending Jan. i, 1894,\\nloss $1 ,169.50. For the year ending Jan. i 1 895,\\nloss 4,620. For the year ending Jan. i, 1896, loss\\n$2,140. For the year ending Jan. i, 1897,\\nloss $1,725. This factory is incorporated, and\\nunder the laws of the State is obliged to make a\\nfull statement of the business each year. This\\nis a fine showing for a factory, with a capital of\\n$50,000, and one, too, that had been in business\\nover twenty years; and up to Jan. i, 1893 had\\nnever failed to declare a dividend.\\nAmong all these traveling men not one was re-\\nceiving as much salary as in 1893. I asked them\\nwhat they thought was the cause of these hard\\ntimes. Most of them contended it was caused by\\nthe Wilson Bill and over production. I asked\\nthem if they thought the Dingley Bill would give\\nrelief. Many of them thought it would in time,", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 3 I\\nbut not to the extent they claimed. Most of\\nthem expected to see times improve, but never\\nexpected the good times and high wages of years\\npast. None were in favor of the free and unHm-\\nited coinage of silver on a ratio of sixteen to one.\\nSTATE OF MISSISSIPPI.\\nWe are now in the State of Mississippi, and it\\nis intensely hot. It seems as if the sun was with-\\nin a few feet of our head. There is an old col-\\nored man working out there in the field we will\\ninterview him. He has with him his wife, four\\nboys, aged four, eight, nine, and thirteen years,\\nand seven girls, aged one, two, seven, ten, eleven,\\ntwelve, and fourteen years,\\nAre these all the children you have, uncle? I\\nasked, This is all I got left, boss. The chim-\\nney fell down and killed a whole raft of them.\\nYes, this is all I got left, boss. Yes, it is mighty\\nlate cropping cotton, boss but the big flood come\\nin de spring and just ruined us. Des whole coun-\\ntry was under water when de planting time come\\non. Big boats come right cross that big field\\nyonder. Do you expect to make much cotton\\nthis year, uncle? Well, boss, you can t tell.\\nIf de frost holds off till late spects we will make a\\nbig crop. The big rise helped des land mightily.\\nHow long have you lived on this land, uncle?", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nBoss, Ise ben right here since de war. Do you\\nown this land? No, boss, Massa Hamilton he\\nown all des land just as far as you can see, and\\nmore too. How is it, uncle, you do not own a\\nfarm, you say you have been working here ever\\nsince the war? Well, boss, you see it takes all\\nthe crop to pay de rent and de vances. What\\nrent do you pay for this land, uncle? I pays\\none-third de cotton and one-fourth de corn.\\nWhere do you live? I lives in dat ar cabin\\nyou sees yonder. I do not see how you get\\nalong with your large family in that small cabin.\\nHow many rooms are there in the house Only\\none, boss. Cotton five cents a pound, and pay-\\ning one-third of the crop for the rent of the land,\\nwhen will that old darkey own a farm Can you\\nanswer the question?\\nI asked if there were any white men on the\\nplace and was told there were three white families\\nrenting land from Mr. Hamilton. I suppose,\\nuncle, they have a better house to live in than you\\ndo. Bout de same, boss, bout de same.\\nHere was a family all working in the field with\\nnot clothes enough on them all to made a good-\\nsized mop living in a little cabin not over eigh-\\nteen feet square not seeing a dollar from one\\nyear s end to the other without any hope for the\\nfuture, and I wondered what he thought was the\\nmatter. He was a citizen, and a voter in this grand\\nUnion with its Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 33\\nI asked him what he thought was the reason we\\nhad such hard times, and if he thought we needed\\nany legislation to help the people. Fore God,\\nboss, I think des world is too wicked. De people\\nought to pray more. I am not talking about\\nreligion, uncle. I want to know if you think a\\nprotective tariff would help this country, or do\\nyou think free trade or free silver would help\\nmore? Free silver, boss, free silver, dat s what\\nwe want. Money what de rats can t chaw. Did\\nyou vote for McKinley or Bryan last fall? I\\nvotes for Bryan. I votes for Bryan every time.\\nThen you are not a Republican, uncle. Yes,\\nIse a Publican. I votes Publican all de time.\\nWhy, you just told me you voted for Mr. Bryan.\\nNow you say you are a Republican. How about\\nthat? You did not vote for McKinley and Bryan\\nboth, did you? Yes, I did, boss, voted Mc-\\nKinley and Bryan too. Who made out your\\nticket you voted last fall? Massa Hamilton he\\nmakes out all de tickets on de place.\\nWe then rode over to Mr. Hamilton s house, the\\nowner of the plantation. We found him sitting out in\\nfront on what they call in that country the gallery,\\nor piazza as we call it, reading a paper. Col.\\nHamilton, as he is called in that country, was a man\\nabout sixty-five years of age, rather tall, iron-gray\\nhair, keen black eyes, smooth shaven, and I should\\njudged weighed about one hundred and sixty-five\\npounds. He called out to us to light, as soon as", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nwe drove up to the gate. He was very cordial,\\nand called a little colored boy to get the gentle-\\nmen a cool drink.\\nI started in on my errand at once by stating to\\nCol. Hamilton that I was from Pennsylvania, and\\nthat I was out trying to get at the true conditions\\nof the country, and to learn from the people in\\nevery section, and from all classes outside of the\\npolitician, what we needed to better the conditions\\nof things in this country; what was best for their\\nimmediate section, and what legislation was needed\\nto benefit them individually. I wished to hear\\nfrom him in regard to the conditions in this sec-\\ntion, and what legislation was needed.\\nThe old gentleman became interested at once,\\nand I found I had met a man who was educated\\nand well informed in the history of this country,\\nboth political and historical. I asked him first to\\ngive me the condition in his county.\\nWell, he says, we will begin right on my\\nplace. When the war ended I came home ragged\\nand without a dollar. I found everything had\\nbeen swept almost clean from the plantation. The\\nhouse had been burned, and my family were living,\\nor rather staying in that old cabin you passed\\ncoming down the hill, near that little branch, back\\nabout a mile. Most of the niggers were still here\\nor near here, half-starved, and with no clothes. I\\ncalled them all up, and told them they were free\\nthat I had no claims on them, and that they could", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 35\\ngo wherever they wished. But if they wanted to\\nremain I would do the best I could for them.\\nThey all remained except two.\\nWe went to work and fixed up the fences and\\nput in a crop, and I wish to say that no men ever\\nworked better than my niggers did that year. We\\nmade a good crop of corn and cotton. Prices\\nwere high, and the next fall we found ourselves\\nvery comfortable. We repaired the cabins, for\\nthe hands got themselves well fixed for the winter\\nwith clothing and shoes, so that things began to\\nlook brighter.\\nThe next year I rented each one on the place\\nwhat land he could cultivate, furnished them with a\\nmule and farming implements, and also what they\\nneeded to eat until the crop was gathered. That\\nyear in the greater part of the South the crop was\\nshort, owing to the drought; but we were blessed\\nwith showers through July and August so our crop\\naveraged very well. The price was high, so the\\nniggers all had money of their own. Some as\\nmuch as one hundred and fifty and two hundred\\ndollars. I tried to talk them into the idea of sav-\\ning something for the time when prices would be\\nlow, but it seemed the more I talked the more\\neager they were to get to town to spend it. They\\nbought everything, except something to eat and\\nwear, and they have continued in this same way\\never since. Soon the price of cotton began to get\\nlower, and it has been going lower every year,", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nuntil the past few years the hands have been get-\\nting in debt to me for provisions. I have made\\nnothing, they have made nothing; and I see no\\nway to help them, from the fact I have nothing to\\nhelp them with. With the prices of cotton there\\nis not a living in the crops.\\nOh, yes; we raise corn, lots of corn but corn\\nwill bring us no money, and hogs seem to all die,\\nso it don t pay to raise them. We have very little\\npasture land for cattle in this country. It would\\npay those who had large tracts of land to raise\\ncattle perhaps but there are so many renters, and\\nit would be impossible for them to rent cattle with\\nland. I really cannot see any prospects ahead for\\nmen who labor in this country. They will no\\ndoubt manage to exist, but that is about all in\\nfact, that is all that can be said of them now.\\nThere is nothing for the young men to do.\\nThere are more lawyers and doctors than can get\\na living. The wages paid for clerks in the towns\\nwould not more than pay board. The merchants\\nI do not believe are making both ends meet. The\\noutlook to me is very gloomy.\\nWhat legislation do you think is needed.\\nColonel, to help this country?\\nWell, I am of the opinion that the free and\\nunlimited coinage of silver, on a ratio of sixteen\\nto one would give us more money. People would\\nthen have money in which they would in some way\\ninvest. I think it would be the means of starting", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 3/\\nfactories in the South. It would also give us a\\nvalue on our land. As it is now land has no real\\nvalue. I doubt if I could raise one dollar cash on\\nmy land per acre. I doubt, even, if I could raise\\nfifty cents on a mortgage. Every one who has\\nmoney is holding on to it, and those who have none\\nwill never get any unless something is done to\\nchange the condition.\\nWhat do you think of the Dingley Bill now\\nbefore Congress? I think it the greatest out-\\nrage ever perpetrated upon the American people.\\nThat bill was made for the manufacturers and\\ntrusts, and not for the masses. We want the priv-\\nilege of buying where we can buy the cheapest,\\nand selling where we can get the best price.\\nSTATES OF ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.\\nWe traveled through the States of Arkansas\\nand Texas. Stopping at Little Rock we took a\\nteam and drove through the country to Fort\\nWorth, Texas. This gave us a chance to note the\\nconditions among the farmers, and learn their\\nmode of living; also giving us an opportunity to\\nlearn what their views were- upon political ques-\\ntions. The people were kind and obliging; noth-\\ning they had was too good for us. It was no\\ntrouble to get their political views, and they also\\nwanted ours, which we declined to give but as", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "38 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nwe took the names of some six hundred we met\\nand talked with in the Southern States they will\\nlikely get our views as we shall mail to each one a\\ncopy of this book.\\nAll along the line we heard the same story,\\nwhether they were Democrats or Populists. We\\nalso found it was hard to distinguish between the\\ntwo both dislike the Dingley Bill, and believe in\\nfree and unlimited coinage of silver on a ratio of\\nsixteen to one. They believe the railroads are a\\ntrust that makes millions out of the poor by ex-\\ncessive rates. They believe Wall Street controls\\nall the money of the country, and that none is ever\\nallowed to be sent to any part of the world with-\\nout their consent. They look upon William J.\\nBryan as the only man that can bring them out of\\ntheir trouble in 1900.\\nI found in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota,\\nIowa, and Illinois hundreds who voted for McKin-\\nley that swore by all that was great and holy\\nthat they would never do so again. We have\\nnow summed up the conditions of the country,\\nand we have learned the sentiment of the laboring\\npeople.\\nThe trip to me has been a surprise, and as I sit\\nhere in Philadelphia this beautiful August morning\\nreading over the notes I have made and the con-\\nversations I had with three hundred and forty\\npersons in every part of this country who labor, I\\ncan do nothing but sit, think, and wonder. It", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 39\\ndoes not seem possible that it can be true. Thou-\\nsands upon thousands of men and women in free\\nAmerica working from ten to sixteen hours twelve\\nmonths of the year, with scant meals^ little or, you\\nmight say, no clothing, living in rough board\\nhouses, no paint, no pictures, no carpets, no music,\\nno books, no education, and no future. This is\\nwhat I found, and I believe the trip has done me\\nno good. I cannot stop thinking. I cannot rest.\\nI lie down at night, and begin to think. I see the\\nlittle pale white women in the South with her hoe\\nout in the hot sun helping her husband in the\\nfield the little children sitting in the shade of a\\ntree near by playing. I see the little cabin\\nwhere they live on the hill in a grove of oaks. I\\nthink of the time when they will market the cot-\\nton. The landlord is there at the sale. The\\namount is figured, and he takes the money. They\\ngo home. I think I hear the conversation when\\nthe settlement is made at the landlord s house.\\nWell, Lem, the five bales brought $115.50.\\nThe third of that for rent is $38.50, and your ac-\\ncount at Jones Brown s that I stood for is $82.-\\n40; that makes $120.90. You owe me $5.40.\\nWell, Lem, you done pretty well. You know\\ncotton is low. Now you may have a little more\\ncotton on that lower patch if the frost holds off,\\nand I propose to let you have that. If you do\\nnot get anything off the patch, long about Jan-\\nuary I will fix it so you can get a little at Jones", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nBrown s on the next crop. You can give me\\nyour note for the $5.40, and we will let that go\\nuntil next year, may be cotton will be worth some-\\nthing then.\\nI think I see the little pale woman standing out\\nby the fence waiting for Lem to come from town.\\nLem told her he would bring her something. She\\nhad given him a list of a few things that morning\\nfor the children a pair of shoes for each, and\\nsome cotton jean to make them pants. She had\\nmeasured each foot with a stick, and given the\\nsticks to Lem. I think I see them meet at the\\ngate, and I see the children climb into the wagon\\nto see what their father had brought from town,\\nand the surprised look when they found the wagon\\nempty. I think I see the tears roll down the little\\npale woman s cheek when Lem tells her the cotton\\ndid not pay out.\\nI see again the tow-headed boys I saw working\\nin the field in Nebraska. I see the perspiration\\nroll down their faces and drop off their sunburned\\nnoses. I hear them talking of what they are going\\nto have when father sells the corn. Of the new\\nsled, the new suit of clothes, the skates that he had\\npromised them if they would work well, and about\\nthe French harp they would get when they went\\nto town with father. I heard them talk about the\\nprice of corn, and hoped it would bring twenty-\\nfive cents a bushel. About how much money\\nfather would get for the crop, and what father was", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "FOUND THE WAGON EMPTY.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 41\\ngoing to buy for mother. I saw them getting out\\nat the dawn of day rubbing their sleepy eyes as\\nthey went running through the wet grass feeding\\nthe horses.\\nI saw the mother at work in the little shed-\\nkitchen getting their breakfast. I saw how tired\\nshe looked as she moved slowly around the little\\nroom.\\nI saw the father come out and look at the red\\neastern sky, and heard him tell the boys we would\\nhave another hot day.\\nI saw the frail little daughter come out to the\\nlittle wood-pile, and get a few sticks to replenish\\nthe fire for her mother. I saw how tired and\\nsleepy she looked. I saw the already tired horses\\nstretch themselves as they were led out to be har-\\nnessed.\\nI saw again the same little company gathering\\nthe corn in the fall. The frost was heavy on the\\nground. I saw the red cold feet of the boys, and\\nsaw them unloading at the bin. I saw the owner\\nwhen he came out to see about his rent. I hear\\nhim tell the father that it was the largest crop ever\\nraised on the farm, but it would not bring enough\\nto pay the rent. I heard the father when he told\\nhim to take it all and release him. I saw the little\\ntow-headed boys slip away to tell mother what\\nMr. Roach had said. I heard her tell the boys it\\nwas just what she had expected. I saw her go\\ninto the little kitchen, and I heard her sobs. I", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "42 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nsaw the father sign the whole crop away for a re-\\nlease for the rent.\\nI look once more, I see a man walking slowly\\nhome from the factory in a little New England\\ntown. I saw him enter the door and set his dinner-\\npail on the little table, take a seat, and fold his\\nhands across his knees. I heard his wife ask him\\nwhat was the matter. I heard his answer Shop\\nis closed. I heard the question What shall we\\ndo? I heard the reply: I don t know.\\nI saw again the tears of a mother. I heard\\nagain the question: **Do you think Mr. Brown\\nwill let us stay here? you know we owe him for\\nfive months rent, and you know, John, we have\\nvery little to eat in the house, even if he will wait\\non us. What are we to do? Where shall we go?\\nLiberty, Fraternity, Equality I say, Hell and\\ndamnation\\nPEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ENJOY THE\\nBLESSINGS OF THE WORLD/\\nEvery man who works ten hours a day ten\\nmonths in the year should be able to live in a nice\\ncottage of his own, with a lawn in front covered\\nwith trees and flowers. He should be able to\\nhave carpets on the floors, pictures on the walls,\\npapers, books, and music for his children. He\\nshould be able to dress his wife and children well,\\nand in the fashion of the day, and should dress", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 43\\nwell himself. He should be able to send his chil-\\ndren to school with warm comfortable clothing, and\\nplenty to eat the best in the land. He should\\nbe able to have two months in each year when he\\ncould visit the woods, lakes, and hills with his fam-\\nily, and visit among his fellow-men. He should\\nbe able to see, and feel, what God had done.\\nThere is no reason why this should not be.\\nThis is the condition I would have for the work-\\ning people of this country. This is the condition\\nthat ought to exist here. This is the condition\\nthat might exist. And until that time comes I am\\nin favor of taking down the statue now standing\\nin New York Harbor, and cut from it the lie, Lib-\\nerty Enlightening the World, and throw the whole\\nthing into the sea.\\nThere is no civilized country on the face of the\\nglobe where you can find 380,000 men, who are\\nwilling to work, tramping over the land hunting\\nany kind of a job that they may live, except in\\nour own land of Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality.\\nNo city on the face of the globe with a million and\\na half of population with one-fourth of its inhab-\\nitants hungry and cold, and no employment at any\\nprice, as the Chicago Chronicle tells us was the\\ncase in that city last winter. No country on the\\nglobe where a woman made pants for fifteen cents\\na dozen. No country on the globe where the\\npeople have suffered more for the past four years\\nthan right here in free America. If you can find", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "44 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\na country where their papers tell of such misery\\nand woe, as do the clippings I have shown you, it\\nought to be wiped off the face of the earth. And\\nremember, too, this suffering in a year when the\\nground had belched forth the largest and grandest\\ncrops ever known in this country.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IIL\\nWHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY LIES.^\\nYOU ask me who is to blame for this trouble\\nand hard times, and I will answer your ques-\\ntion, by saying, The laboring people themselves\\nand no one else. I will go further, and say that\\nall the ills this country has ever had was brought\\nabout by the poorer classes of our people. There\\nare in the South a million ignorant black men, and\\nhalf as many ignorant whites. There are twice as\\nmany more throughout the remaining portion of\\nour land. In New York city alone there are fully\\na hundred thousand ignorant foreigners, one-half\\nof whom cannot speak our language, and never\\nwill. It is into this lawless, Godless hordes we\\nhave placed the priceless jewel, the free man s bal-\\nlot. The ballot bought with our richest blood,\\nand paid for with thousands of millions of gold.\\nThe ballot, consecrated with untold suffering, sac-\\nrifices, and tears. This costly safeguard of our\\nnation s life we have bartered away for less than a\\nmess of pottage. What the future has in store\\nfor us God only knows. Attila with his wild horde", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "46 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS\\nof savage Huns was not more fatal to the life of\\nRome than are the ignorant battalions led on to\\ndestroy the American ballot.\\nAttend one of our labor Conventions if you\\nwould learn something. Hear them denounce the\\nmen who are at the head of our Government\\nState and national. Hear them tell about the rich\\nwho buy up votes, and put themselves into ofhce\\nand power. And, mind you, I do not deny the\\nstatement, for it is a fact. I wish to ask the ques-\\ntion Who do they buy? I will tell you. These\\nvery men who make these charges, they themselves\\nare the ones who sell their votes. The laboring\\npeople have three votes to the middle and rich\\nclasses one, so there is no chance for the rich to\\nget into power except through the help of the\\npoor man s vote. Whoever heard of a politician\\ngoing out among the business and professional\\nmen to buy votes. They buy in the market\\nwhere they can buy the cheapest. For what\\npurpose do they employ ward heelers in our large\\ncities? Not to round up the business and pro-\\nfessional men, but to buy up the poor, hard-handed\\nsons of toil. And by the eternal gods they do\\nnot work in vain.\\nYou can hardly go into a city or town but you\\nwill hear the poor cursing the rich. You hear\\nthem complain about the laws being made for the\\nrich, and the poor man has no justice. I believe\\nit is so. I do not deny a single statement. It is", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 47\\na fact, that all the city offices of this country that\\npay a good fat salary are held by men who are\\nwell-to-do. They never worked, never will but\\nthey are in with the clique, and they get there.\\nNow who is to blame for this? The working peo-\\nple have three votes to the rich and middle classes\\none, and I ask. Who put them there? Who makes\\nthe laws? You say, The rich man. And I say.\\nIt is a lie. You voted for him, and he is your\\nrepresentative and there is not a law on the\\nstatute books you did not make yourselves. You\\nstand by and let these little two by four lawyers in\\nyour county with a few of their henchmen meet\\nin Convention, with a slate already made out in\\nadvance for their candidate for the Legislature,\\nwhom the rich men know they can control, and you\\nvote for him, and send him as your representative\\nto make the laws for you. These same brainless\\nlittle devils you send to the Legislature are your\\nrepresentatives, and they elect your senators for\\nyou. It is the same with your congressmen. You\\nare the ones who do the voting. Three votes to\\nthe other class one, and you never get a smell\\nand you do not deserve any.\\nIf you should nominate a working man you\\nknow as well as I that he could not be elected.\\nWhen one of your fellow workmen asked you why\\nyou do not vote for the candidate of the working\\npeople, you would tell him to go to the devil.\\nYou would tell him you did not ask anyone to tell", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "48 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nyou how to vote, but you go out and march in the\\nmud and shout and hold up the banner on which\\nis written, Vote for Col. John P. Jones, the\\nworking man s friend. You are full of Col. John\\nP. Jones whiskey, and you feel as though you was\\nworth a mfllion, when you are not worth the powder\\nthat it would take to blow your little thimbleful\\nof brains out. You go to the hall and hear Col.\\nJones speak, and he will tell you what he is going\\nto do for the working man. You will cheer and\\nthrow your hat, and stand on benches with the\\nfroth running out of your mouth like a mad dog.\\nYou will keep up the lick all through the cam-\\npaign, and when it is over you will meet in Con-\\nvention, and curse the country, the Government,\\nthe laws, and the whole business. You will then\\nstart a new party, and at the next election you will\\nbe found again splitting the mud shouting for Col.\\nJones.\\nThere are thousands upon thousands of working\\npeople who are not only honest, but are educated\\nand refined. They are capable of making laws\\nand would make good ones, too but they seldom\\nmeet in the Conventions to formulate new parties\\nand new plans. They know full well the needs of\\na change, but they also know there is no con-\\nfidence to be placed in you, when it comes to an\\nelection.\\nThe working people have it in their own hands\\nto make this country a land of joy. They have", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 49\\nit in their own hands to dictate to manufacturers\\nand trusts the wages they shall be paid. They\\nhave it in their own hands to live as Americans\\nshould live. They have it in their power to be-\\ncome happy, and make their families happy. The\\nquestion is, Will they do it? And as I read over\\nmy notes and conversations from every State in\\nthis Union I answer, No", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nTHE REMEDY.\\nA^/ELL, you say, what is the remedy?\\nAnd I will tell you, A higher protective\\ntariff^ Nothing else can help the working peo-\\nple in the United States. When the tariff is low\\nthe working people suffer; when it is high they\\nare prosperous. The higher you get it the better\\nthe working people will live. The money ques-\\ntion does not concern the working people. The\\ntalk about the free coinage of silver helping the\\nworking people is nonsense. The talk about hav-\\ning a gold standard is nonsense. The whole\\nmoney question itself is nonsense, from beginning\\nto end, and there is nothing in it, as I will show you\\nbefore you finish this little book. What we want\\nis to have the working people in America live\\nbetter, and not become the slaves of the rich and\\nI take it for granted that you will admit that the\\nworking people of the United States have been\\nbut little better than slaves the past four years.\\nIf the clippings taking from our own American\\npapers are true, they have been worse than slaves.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 5 I\\nPooh Pooh you say, and your nose turns\\nup as if you had a piece of limburger under it;\\n**I am going to vote for Bryan in 1900, I do not\\ncare what you say. Well, my friend, so am I\\nso you have none the better of me.\\nYou say you do not believe in free coinage of\\nsilver, and you believe in a high protective tariff;\\nyou say you will vote for Bryan in 1900, when\\nyou know he is a free trader, and believes in a free\\nand unlimited coinage of silver on a ratio of six-\\nteen to one. You are a strange man to believe\\none thing and vote another. Why do you do it?\\nWell, my friend, I will tell you why. You have\\nseen in the past four years thousands of men with-\\nout a job. You have seen men working ten hours\\na day hundreds of feet under ground for $470 a\\nweek. You have seen Western farmers raise the\\nlargest crops ever known, and yet not able to pay\\nthe rent. You have seen the Southern cotton\\nplanter sell his cotton for four and five cents per\\npound, which would not give him a mere living.\\nYou have seen the wheat raiser sell his wheat at\\nthe farm for forty-five cents per bushel. You have\\nseen the wool grower sell his wool for twelve cents\\nper pound, which would not pay for the feed. You\\nhave seen mechanics turned out of house and\\nhome. You have seen 380,000 men on the tramp\\nlooking for work at any price. You have seen\\nwomen making pants for fifteen cents a dozen, that\\nwere starving to death. You have seen one-fourth", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "52 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nof the inhabitants of the second largest city in the\\nUnited States hungry and cold, with no chance to\\nearn a penny and you yourself have had no pic-\\nnic. You have seen all this under the Wilson low\\ntariff bill. And if you are not satisfied with this,\\nI propose to help you get the medicine you so\\nmuch desire.\\nWell, you say, **you have the Dingley Tariff\\nBill, what are you kicking about? Yes we have\\nthe Dingley Tariff Bill, and it is better than the\\nWilson Bill, but it is not what it should be. It is\\nnot what I desire. The Republicans when out on\\nthe stump hunting votes promised they would give\\nus a tariff that would protect the working people.\\nThey have not given us what they promised. The\\nfact is, they do not care one straw about the work-\\ning people. The moment they were elected they\\nbegan talking about a conservative tariff. They\\nsaid it would not do to increase the tariff too much,\\nand after the House sent in their bill with an in-\\ncrease of less than four per cent, over the Wilson\\nBill, our old gray-headed senators, who talked so\\nearnestly to the working people and told them\\nwhat they would do for them, worked nearly four\\nmonths trying to cut the House bill down. There\\nis no difference in the parties.\\nDid you ever know of a party that was not an\\nanti-poverty party? Did you ever know a poli-\\ntician out hunting for votes that his whole argu-\\nment was not, What I am going to do for the", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 53\\nworking people? Did you ever read a paper of\\neither party, but what the editor told you his\\nwhole object in life was to help the poor, hard-\\nhanded sons of toil?\\nOut in the West they tell the farmer that his\\nwheat will bring two dollars per bushel if their\\nparty is elected. In the East they tell the me-\\nchanic that when they get in power he can buy his\\nflour at two dollars a barrel. The Democrats tell\\nhim they will give him the markets of the world\\nso he can have work all the time at high wages,\\nand also give him free silver. The Republicans\\ntell him they will give him protection, reform the\\ncurrency, and make every silver dollar on earth\\njust as good as a gold dollar.\\nThe fact is, working people never investigate\\nthe condition of the country. They never look\\nten miles away from home to see what the trouble\\nis. They listen to these politicians going about\\nthe country hunting votes and telling them about\\nliberty, fraternity, and equality. They read these\\nparty papers who are hired to support these very\\nchaps. They never reason about anything.\\nLet us take the Western farmer who raises corn\\nand wheat, and, mind you, I am not talking of the\\nman who owns several farms that he rents for a\\nlarge per cent., but I want to get at the man who\\nrents his farm, the poor laboring farmer. The\\nman who owns several hundred acres of land that\\nhe bought years ago at three dollars per acre,", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "54 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nwhich is now worth fifty dollars per acre, is not a\\npoor laboring man. He is the most independent\\nof all men. The poor renter, unless conditions\\nchange, can never own a farm. Land is getting\\nhigher every year, and, of course, will continue to\\nget higher at every decade.\\nThe young man just starting out in life who de-\\npends upon the wages he earns at the factory can\\nnever have a home until conditions change\\nneither can the laboring miner, the clerk, the rail-\\nroad employee, or, in fact, any other man who\\nworks by the day.\\nThe raising of corn and wheat in the Western\\nStates has been a profitable business in years past,\\nbut the rent is all the time getting higher, and\\ncorn and wheat is all the while getting lower. If the\\nprice of corn last year had been thirty cents per\\nbushel at the farm, instead of ten to fifteen cents,\\nthe corn planter would have made some money;\\nbut as it was, most of them came out in debt. The\\nfarm renters, instead of taking a business view of\\nthe situation, and try to advance the price of corn\\nand wheat, do all they can to keep the price down.\\nIt does not seem to me that it ought to take a\\nfarmer very long to see why the price of corn is\\ngetting lower but he does not. And if you ask\\nhim why, he will give you the same answer that\\nevery politician will give you, no matter to what\\nparty he belongs. They will tell you about the\\nmonetary system of the country. They want a", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 55\\ngold standard and a reform of the currency, or\\nthey want a free and unlimited coinage of silver\\non a ratio of sixteen to one. They will tell you\\nabout the trusts and the money power, or about\\nthe railroads and Wall Street money lenders.\\nThey all have the same story. Every paper tells\\nthe same tale of woe, it matters not what party\\nthey represent; whether Republicans, Populist,\\nDemocrats, or Socialist. It is all the same hash.\\nSUPPLY AND DEMAND MAKE THE PRICE/\\nEvery man ought to know without being told\\nthat the reason why wheat, corn, cotton, and other\\nproducts of the farm are low, is because there is\\ntoo much of it. He ought to know without being\\ntold that supply and demand make the price of\\neverything in the world. There is corn enough in\\nthis country to last until the harvest of 1898, if not\\na bushel was raised in 1897. There are millions\\nof bushels of corn that has been lying in the bins\\nfor three years waiting a higher price. It certainly\\nseems to me that the corn planters living in the\\ncorn belt of this country would do all they could\\nto reduce the acreage of corn in other parts of the\\nUnited States. They certainly know that if this\\ncould be done they would be able to get a fair\\nprice for corn, and make some money. Yes,\\nyou say, that sounds well on paper, but how can", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "56 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nit be done? I answer by a protective tariff. Not\\nthe tariff given us by the Wilson Bill; not the\\ntariff given us by the Dingley Bill, but one that\\nwill protect the working man from the half civil-\\nized countries of the world. Then you laugh and\\nsay you have heard that same story before. It s\\nan old chestnut. Yet you will admit if the pro-\\nduction of corn could be reduced one-third you\\nwould get a living price for it. If I were a West-\\nern farmer I would take a look over this country\\nand see where all this corn was being raised why\\nso many of our people had gone into the business,\\nand what they want to induce them to raise some-\\nthing else.\\nNow take a look. In the South you find no less\\nthan 500,000,000 bushels of corn have been raised\\nthis year yet it is not a corn country, and their\\nyield is not fifteen bushels per acre on the average.\\nI would try to stop them from raising corn and buy\\nit from me.\\nTake another look at the little stony hills of\\nNew England. They, too, will put upon the\\nmarket 10,000,000 bushels of corn to compete\\nwith the Western corn planter.\\nLook again at New York and Pennsylvania, and\\nyou find these two States will add 100,000,000\\nbushels of corn to give the Western corn planter\\na push downward.\\nI should think you people in the West would\\nlike to cut off this competition but instead you", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 57\\nvote for a policy that forces these people in the\\nSouth and East to raise corn, and you are not\\nhaving a very nice time of it, are you? I am glad\\nof it. It serves you right. You cannot expect\\nmuch of a rise in corn this year. If you do, you\\nwill not get it.\\nNow your question is, why do they raise so\\nmuch corn in the East and South on land that\\nproduces so little That is very easy to answer\\nThe price of cotton, sugar, rice, and wool is so low\\nin the South that the farmers could not raise these\\nthings and buy your corn.\\nIn the East one-half the factory hands are idle,\\nand to give you a case in point 1 know of two\\nmen in Massachusetts who had been out of work\\na long time. Last year they rented ten acres of\\nold pasture land, and planted it in corn. They\\nhad no money to pay for fertilizing It, so they\\ncarted out what they call muck from an old\\nswamp, and they raised over 200 bushels of corn.\\nThe old pasture had not been turned over for forty\\nyears. This is not the worse feature about it:\\nThose two men used to earn from $2.50 to $3.00\\na day, and bought Western corn. You stopped\\nthem from buying your corn, and made them raise\\ncorn which helped reduce your price, the same as\\nyou did in the South. Now take your medicine.\\nThe cotton planters of the South are nearly all\\nfree traders, as are the sugar and wool growers.\\nLook at their condition to-day. Up to 1892", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "58 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nSouthern wool sold at from eighteen to twenty-five\\ncents per pound. One year after it went down to\\nten and twelve cents, and 2,000,000 pounds sold\\nat San Antonio, Texas, last year for six cents a\\npound. Cotton is selling there for four and a half\\nto five cents a pound, and no man can get a living\\nat these prices.\\nWHY THE FARMERS SHOULD VOTE FOR TARIFF\\nON SUGAR.\\nWhat sort of a tariff would I have? Why, I\\nwould begin by putting five cents a pound on\\nsugar nothing less, on every pound that was im-\\nported into this country. When you tell this to\\nthe Western farmer, or to a working man in the\\nEast, he will look you square in the eye and tell\\nyou he has not had twenty-five pounds of sugar in\\nhis house the past year; and now he says you\\nwant to make it higher. He does not know that\\nwith a tariff of five cents a pound on sugar he\\ncould have all he wanted. The lower the tariff on\\nsugar the less he will have. That is a cold hard\\nfact, but he will never find it out, so I shall vote\\nwith him in 1900, and let him go without sugar.\\nWe send away over $100,000,000 in gold every\\nyear for sugar; $10,000,000 more than we get for\\nall the wheat we export. We put in corn, cotton,\\nand wheat on our sugar lands to keep the price of", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 59\\nwhat the American farmer produces at starvation\\nprices. Just think The crop of sugar raised in\\nthe United States in 1895 ^^as no more than was\\nraised in 1850, about 130,000 tons, and the rice\\ncrop was smaller by 35,000 tons; yet we have the\\nbest lands in the world for raising these crops.\\nHow quickly with a tariff of five cents a pound\\non sugar would the corn lands of Kansas, Ne-\\nbraska, and other States be put into sugar beets\\nHow quickly would a good part of the lands in\\nthe South now growing cotton and corn be put in-\\nto cane How quickly the price of corn, wheat,\\nand cotton would advance, and give those people\\na respectable living Very nice thing, you say,\\nfor the man who raises sugar, but what would\\nbecome of the POOR people who have no sugar\\nlands, or any other land? If you will just hold\\nyour breath a moment I will tell you how. With\\na protective tariff, the POOR people who work\\nin factories and in the stores, the men who build\\nthe houses, forge the iron, build the railroads, mine\\nthe coal, and work with the spade, will get his\\nsugar. I am now talking to the farmers of this\\ncountry. I will talk to the other men later, and it\\nwill amount to just as much as talking to you.\\nSimply nothing.\\nIf the man renting a farm and selling his corn\\nat from ten to fifteen cents a bushel at the farm,\\ndoes not know enough to get rid of his com-\\npetition and better his condition when he can,", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "6o POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ndoes not deserve anything better than what he is\\ngetting.\\nThe man taking his wife and children out into\\nthe fields to chop and pick cotton, which will\\nhardly give him enough to keep body and soul\\ntogether, ought to know enough to vote for a pol-\\nicy that will reduce the acreage and cut off the\\nsupply. Holding Conventions and passing reso-\\nlutions will never do it. Raise the $i 20,000,000\\nworth of sugar that we buy of other countries at\\nhome, and you will give the cotton grower, the\\ncorn planter, and the wheat producer a chance to\\nlive Keep this money at home then what cot-\\nton, corn, and wheat you can spare for export\\nmake them pay you for it. Work for your own\\ninterest. Keep our mechanics at work in the fac-\\ntories; buy their products, and pay a fair price\\nfor them, so they can live, and they in turn will\\nbuy your products. Do not buy the products of\\nforeign countries, and force the American out of\\nthe factory to compete with you in the fields.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Yes, you say, but wheat is advancing in price\\nevery day, and you believe it will go higher. So\\ndo I and I would not be surprised to see it bring\\n$1.25 per bushel before next spring, and that is\\nlow enough. When you see the cause of this rise\\nin wheat you ought to see that you cannot expect\\nthis market to last long, and the price must soon\\ngo down again. What made wheat go up? You\\ndo not know, do you?", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 6 1\\nFrance raises 350,000,000 bushels of wheat every\\nyear, India 300,000,000 bushels, Russia 325 ,000,000,\\nAustria 200,000,000, Germany 125,000,000, Italy\\n125,000,000, United Kingdom 80,000,000, Spain\\n100,000,000, Asia 100,000,000, Caucasus 80,000,-\\n000, South America 100,000,000, Australia 50,-\\n000,000, Canada 60,000,000, Africa 50,000,000,\\nTurkey 50,000,000, Belgium 25,000,000, Greece\\n12,000,000, Servia 10,000,000, Portugal 9,000,000,\\nNetherlands 7,000,000, Denmark 6,000,000, Swe-\\nden and Norway 5,000,000, Switzerland 4,000,000,\\nand Mexico 12,000,000. Do you not know that\\nthere are 2,500,000,000 bushels of wheat raised\\nevery year not grown in the United States? and\\nthat there were 2,1 10,000 bushels of wheat shipped\\ninto the United States and sold last year? Do\\nyou not know that when you exported a bushel of\\nwheat you had to compete with all these countries,\\nand that in some of them you can get farm labor-\\ners at ten cents a day? The only time you get a\\nrise on the wheat you export is when the crops\\nfail in these countries. The crops were short in\\nsome of them this year, which caused you to get\\na better price for your crop.\\nLet me give you a clipping from the ColtunbuSy\\nOhio Press:\\nFor a time there was talk about taxing New\\nYork Stock operations, but actuated by that fidelity\\nto the people always shown by the Republican\\nparty since the days of Lincoln, the tax was", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "62 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nplaced on sugar. If there are any who seek to\\nlighten their taxes let them quit eating sugar.\\nYou farmers who raise corn, wheat, and cotton\\ncan take that with you into the fields and chew on\\nit. I would advise you to subscribe for this Co-\\nlimibus, Ohio Press. It is just the paper you need.\\nHere is one from the New York World, the\\npoor man s friend. It says:\\nThe Dingley Tariff Bill is an attempt to force\\nup the cost of living in the United States in the\\nexpectation that it will be easier to get a dear liv-\\ning than a cheap one. If that theory works Mr.\\nDingley will be entitled to insert himself into\\nAmerican history as a greater inventor than\\nKeeley.\\nYou have had his cheap living for four years.\\nHow did you like it?\\nNow here is another from the St. Louis Republic,\\nowned by the same Polish Jew that owns the New\\nYork World, and he has made millions of dollars\\nin this country writing just such free trade litera-\\nture for our American farmers. The Republic\\nsay\\nNews of the failure of the wheat crop in a\\nlarge part of the European wheat belt and also in\\nArgentina and other parts of the South American\\nwheat-producing section is the first piece of good\\nfortune the American farmers have had for years.\\nHis season has been all that could be asked, for\\nhis yield is bountiful. One recognized authority", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 63\\nestimated the shortage, a month ago, at 144,000,-\\n000 bushels of wheat. Since then he has learned\\nof the failure of the crop in Russia, India, and\\nArgentina, and has more than doubled his esti-\\nmate.\\nThis paper says this is the first good fortune the\\nAmerican farmer has had for years. Why, does\\nhe not say this is the first time the American farm-\\ners has received a fair price for his wheat since the\\nDemocrat party gave him the Wilson Bill? This\\nis what you depend upon for a rise in wheat, and\\nremember it does not come every year. Yes, these\\nare good papers for the American farmers.\\nI will now say to the farmers who raise corn,\\nwheat, and cotton in the United States, continue\\nto raise these staples force the wool growers out\\nof their business with a low tariff, and make them\\nput their lands into cotton, corn, and wheat. You\\nhave done this, and you have done more. You\\nhave forced the men out of the factories, out of\\nthe mills, off the railroads, out of the stores; you\\nhave taken them out of the sugar fields; you\\nhave forced the boys to quit going to school in\\norder to help you raise corn, wheat, and cotton\\nand now comes Eugene V. Debs with his social\\ndemocracy and the Salvation Army all preparing\\nto move West to help you. You can then build\\nbins the whole length of all the railroads to store\\nyour five cent corn, read your free trade papers\\nrun by foreigners, vote for Bryan, or some other", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "64 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nfree trade fellow and when the poor devils who are\\nout of work, hungry and cold, come along beg-\\nging for something to eat, get your gun and drive\\nthem into the wilderness, for they are nothing but\\nAmerican tramps and have no right to live anyway.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nTHE MINE OWNER AND EMPLOYER*\\nT ET us now see what the coal miners need to\\nJ\u00e2\u0080\u0094-/ help them out of their trouble. And right\\nhere I want to give you an editorial clipped from\\nthe Chicago Chronicle^ which is a free trade paper.\\nIt says\\nFrom the standpoint of wages paid and de-\\nmanded there never was a more justifiable strike\\nthan that of the coal miners which is now in prog-\\nress. It is a strike for a living. It is a strike by\\nmen whose ill-requited toil is peculiarly hazardous\\nand hard, directed at employers who, in the ma-\\njority of cases, are pretentious frauds in respect\\nto their protestations of a high regard for labor.\\nIt is a strike against the humbug of a Republican\\ntariff, and in the interest of decency, humanity,\\nand fair play. It is a strike which ought to win,\\nand which the Chronicle hopes will win.\\nEminent coal operators find it comparatively\\neasy to meet in somebody s backroom and agree\\nupon an increase in the price of coal to consum-\\ners. Such increases often without cause, save the", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "66 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ngreed of capital, are submitted to uncomplainingly.\\nThere is nothing to prevent these gentlemen from\\nyielding to the just demands of the miners and,\\nif necessary, adding the increased wage to the\\nprice of the product. The striking miners have\\nbeen wretchedly paid, as all protected laborers\\nhave been. Their wages have been cut below the\\nliving point. They and their families are in dis-\\ntress.\\nThe strike has been peacefully conducted thus\\nfar, showing that the men are law-abiding and\\nhonest. Their leaders have borne themselves with\\ndignity and sincerity. They merit and will re-\\nceive the sympathy, moral and financial, of all\\nAmericans who hate injustice.\\nI agree with the Chronicle in its declaration, that\\nthere never was a more justifiable strike. It\\nsurely is as the Chronicle says a strike for a\\nliving. And I also agree with the Chronicle in\\nsaying, It is a strike against the humbug of a pro-\\ntective tariff. The Wilson Bill was a humbug,\\nand the Dingley Bill is not much better.\\nIf we had had a tariff high enough to have shut\\nout the coal of other countries, and one that would\\nexclude the sugar, cotton, wool, and manufactured\\ngoods from other countries, the coal miners could\\nhave struck for three dollars a day, and their\\ndemands would have been allowed. I should\\nlike to see the miners win, and not a man be\\nobliged to go down into the earth for less than", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 6/\\nthree to four dollars a day. And he should re-\\nceive this for eight hours work. Half the time\\nthese men work in mud and water not knowing\\nwhether they will ever again see the light above.\\nThis is what the miners want, and it is what they\\nshould receive. Who is to blame for this in-\\njustice The Chronicle says, the coal operators.\\nI say it is the very fellows who write these free\\ntrade editorials, and mislead the working people\\nby telling them they should have the markets of\\nthe world.\\nMost of these miners are foreigners, and vote\\nfor tariff, for revenue only and they got just what\\nthey voted for, starvation. I do not believe the\\nminers will win. How can they? Here are thou-\\nsands of men off the railroads, out of the fac-\\ntories and stores; mechanics of all kinds (380,000\\nof them) all on the tramp, hunting for bread.\\nThey were driven from their homes by the com-\\npetition of the half-civilized countries of the world:\\nthese are the men who will take the places at\\nprices that will hardly keep them out of the grave.\\nThese men are hungry men, that are taking the\\nplaces of the miners to-day. What will the min-\\ners do? They will arm themselves with guns and\\npistols, and we will see poor hungry men, who are\\ntrying to get an advance in their starvation wages,\\nmeet the poor hungry men who have taken their\\nplaces to prevent starvation, and the fight begins.\\nPoor hungry men fighting poor hungry men. Then", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "6S POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nyou will see the soldiers on the march, and you\\nwill see the blood of the poor hungry men begin\\nto flow. Liberty, Fraternity, Equality\\nYes, the Chronicle is right. Humbug of a\\nprotective tariff. It should be $5.00 a ton. I\\nwonder if the coal miners know that we paid Can-\\nada last year $3,1 18,746 for coal? I wonder if the\\nChronicle knows that if the mine operators should\\nput the price of coal up to where they could pay\\nthe miners $2.00 a day that hardly a mine could\\nbe run in this country? Perhaps the Chronicle\\ndoes not know that there are 200,000 square miles\\nof coal fields in China and Japan, 35,000 square\\nmiles in India, 27,000 in Russia, 9,000 in Great\\nBritian, 3,600 in France, and that if we imported\\nover $3,000,000 worth of coal, with the wages of\\nour miners at $4.70 a week, that with an advance\\nin price it would bring millions of tons more. The\\nChronicle says it is in sympathy with the coal\\nminers. It does not look like it.\\nIf I was a miner I would vote for men who\\nwould protect me and my business. I would vote\\nfor men who would put the tariff on coal high\\nenough so not a ton could be landed on our shores.\\nI would vote for men who would put a tariff high\\nenough on everything that can be grown or made\\nin the United States so none of it would ever\\nreach this country. I would not have the men\\nfrom the farms, the rice fields, the sugar planta-\\ntions, the sheep ranches, the factories, the iron", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 69\\nmines, the mills, and the mechanics and laborers\\nturned loose to compete with me in my business.\\nI would vote for men who would make a tariff high\\nenough so these men would be employed at good\\nwages, and the coal operators could not get them.\\nI would then work hand in hand with the mine\\nowners. I would ask them to form a trust. Yes,\\na coal trust. Terrible, isn t it? I would ask them\\nto shut down every coal mine in this country.\\nThat it was not advisable to run and give the own-\\ners a per cent, of the profits of the trust, so they\\ncould make just as much money as if they run the\\nmine. I would ask them to put the price of coal\\nhigh enough so they could afford to pay me wages\\nthat would enable me to live well and save some-\\nthing, by working eight hours a day ten months\\nin the year. I would put men at the head of the\\nMiners* Union that had sense enough to work in\\nharmony with the mine owners, and I would have\\na Great Big Trust.\\nWell, you say, I have read enough of your\\nbook if you are in favor of trusts. If you have\\npaid your twenty-five cents for the book it is all I\\nwant of you. I have formed a trust with the Li-\\nbrarian of Congress on this book, and do not ask\\nany odds of anybody. This is what the mine\\nowners and miners should do. And if you were\\nnot willing to pay for the coal so the miners could\\nlive, well, you might freeze to death. I would see\\nthat you paid for it if you bought it from any", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "yO POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nother country. I am in favor of trusts, because\\nthey are paying their workmen better wages to-\\nday than the firms and corporations who are\\nobliged to meet the competion of the country. I\\nam in favor of anything that will raise the wages\\nof our working men and women so they can better\\ntheir condition.\\nYou say the mine owners are a set of scoun-\\ndrels, and would not be satisfied unless they made\\nevery dollar possible. You are just one of those\\nkind of men who would buy your coal in China\\nor any other country if you could save fifteen\\ncents a ton, and let the miners of America starve.\\nYou are one of those men who say, if our people\\ncannot manufacture goods or mine coal as cheap\\nas other countries, let them quit and go at some-\\nthing else. I have heard hundreds of farmers say\\nthis very thing and thousands of miners and men\\nwho worked in factories have quit, and are now\\nraising corn and wheat. I wonder how the farm-\\ners like it\\nThe Chronicle says: Eminent coal operators\\nfind it comparatively easy to meet in somebody s\\nback room and agree upon an increase in the\\nprice of coal to consumers. Not so easy as the\\nChronicle might suppose. I venture the assertion\\nthat there is no coal mine in the United States\\nwith the same amount of capital invested that has\\nmade as much profit in the past two years as has\\nthe Chronicle. The Chronicle also says There", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. /I\\nis nothing to prevent these gentlemen from yield-\\ning to the just demands of the miners and, if nec-\\nessary, adding the increased wage to the price of\\nthe product.\\nLet us see about that. When a coal operator\\ngoes to New York or any other large city to get or-\\nders for coal here is what he bumps up against He\\ncalls on some big iron manufacturer, or dealer in\\ncoal, or railroad official, and says I want to sell\\nyou 200,000 tons of coal. All right, sir; I am\\ngoing to buy that amount of coal. What is your\\nprice? will sell you that amount at $3-70 a\\nton. Well, sir, I do not want your coal.\\nYou say you are going to buy the coal, why\\ncan t I sell it to you? Simply because I can\\nbuy it cheaper. Why, he says, I have had fifty\\ntelegrams in the past twenty-four hours offering to\\nsell me coal for less than your price. Just as good\\ncoal as yours and, more than that, I can buy for-\\neign coal for less money than you offer it. Why\\nshould I buy your coal?\\nLet me ask you what you would have done un-\\nder the circumstances. No doubt you would have\\ntold him the men at your mine struck and you\\nhad to advance their wages, and that he ought to\\nbe willing to pay you more. That is not what I\\nwould have done. I should have done just\\nwhat the coal operators done took the order at\\n$3.50 per ton, gone home and cut the wages of\\nthe men where I could make ten cents per ton", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "72 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nprofit, or on the whole the neat little sum of $20,-\\n000. You might not have taken the order. Then\\nyou would have to go back to your mine, let your\\nmen go and close up business. Every man that\\ndeals largely in coal in this country knows all the\\ntime the exact price he can buy coal landed at his\\nyards from any part of the world. Just the\\nmoment he can buy coal ten cents a ton cheaper\\nfrom other countries, the foreign coal will come.\\nAll these dealers are in correspondence with every\\nmine in the country. They have hundreds of offers\\nevery morning by wire, from as many different\\nmine owners, who are trying to place orders. They\\ncut and slash prices to a point where there is noth-\\ning in it for them or the miner. Competition is\\nheartless. Competition starves men, women, and\\nchildren. Competition is not the life of trade, but\\ncertain death; and I am in favor of TRUSTS.\\nAll this talk about the mine owners being de-\\nmons is nonsense. It is worse, it is a lie. They\\nare just as good men as the editor of the Chron-\\nicle, or the farmers, or the men who work in the\\nmines. I do not believe there is a coal mine in\\noperation to-day where the net profit being made\\nis over fifteen cents per ton and I believe more\\nare making less than are making more. This you\\nsay sounds silly to you.\\nWe will take a mine getting out 1500 tons a\\nday, and that is not a very large mine, at fifteen\\ncents per ton, is $225.00 a day, or $6,750.00 a", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 73\\nmonth, or $81,000.00 a year; some mines are\\ngetting out five times this amount. You can figure\\nit, and see how silly it looks to you.\\nI will make another statement: If the mine\\nowners could sell their coal at an advance of $1.00\\nper ton, they would be glad to give ninety cents\\nof this to the miners. You say you do not believe\\nit, and I do not care a copper cent whether you do\\nor not. The condition of the miners will never be\\nchanged. They will always be led by such men as\\nEugene V. Debs, and vote for free trade. Perhaps\\nMr. Debs is looking ahead to 1900, when we can\\nfollow in the footsteps of W. P. Powderly. The\\nstrike is on, 75,000 men out, as the sun goes down.\\nStrike, revolution, and disorder, and the sons of\\nmen still crying out in mortal agony for enough to\\nsustain life. Delegates are now out from the Min-\\ners Union in every part of this land begging for\\nfood and clothes. They voted for laws that brought\\nthem to this condition, and they will do it again.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VL\\nCONDITIONS OF THE EAST.\\nLET us now take a look at the East. Let us\\ngo into the factories, and look at the work-\\nmen, many of whom are drawn out of shape one\\nshoulder lower than the other, and their hands\\ndistorted by constant toil.\\nThe wages in the cotton and woolen mills do not\\naverage eighty cents a day; and even at these\\nwages the mills are losing money. One of the\\nlargest cotton mills in the East lost $34,000 last\\nyear. This is not all the East are losing their\\nbusiness; they cannot compete with the Southern\\nmills in the manufacturing of cotton goods, and\\nif you want to know why, visit the cotton mills\\naround Augusta, Ga., and you will find the average\\nwages much lower than in the East. Some will\\ntell you the reason the Southern mills can make\\ncotton goods cheaper is because the cotton is\\ngrown there, and it is a saving in freight. But\\nstop and figure a little. The freight on cotton\\nfrom Georgia to the Eastern mills is sixty cents per\\nhundred, and on cotton goods to the East or West\\nover $2.00 per hundred yet these Southern mills", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 75\\nare driving the Eastern mills out of the market\\nright in their own territory on coarser made goods.\\nSimply wages, nothing else and the Eastern mills\\nmust reduce wages or quit business. Competition,\\nwhich has been held was the life of trade for ages,\\nmay be true, but it is just as true that it is death\\nto the poor laboring man. Thousands of men and\\nwomen working in these factories are in no better\\ncondition than the coal miners. Thousands have\\nleft to help the corn and wheat growers of the West\\nproduce more cheap corn and wheat. Thousands\\nmore must go.\\nIn past years when business has been what they\\ncall in the East quite fair, it has taken a man work-\\ning in those factories many years to pay for his\\nlittle home with the most rigid economy. If things\\nremain as they are to-day and as they have been\\nfor the last four years, a young man just started\\nout in life, if he should live to be sixty years old\\ncould not accumulate money enough to buy a\\nhome. The trouble is, they have been competing\\nfor the markets of the world.\\n**HOW FREE TRADERS WOULD GET THE MAR-\\nKETS OF THE WORLD.\\nI would like to know, my reader, if you were\\nmanufacturing, say cotton goods in New England,\\nallowing you had all the money needed for the", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "T6 political thunderbolts.\\nbusiness, how you would go to work to place your\\ngoods in South America? England has that\\ncountry now, and sells them nearly all the goods\\nthey buy. I would really like to know how some\\nof these free traders would manage to get the trade\\naway from England? I never heard them explain\\nit. They will begin by saying: Owing to the\\nintelligence of our workmen and our improved\\nfacilities and natural advantages we can success-\\nfully compete with any foreign nation in the\\nmarkets of the world.\\nI have taken the above from the Democratic\\nplatform of the State of Michigan. This is all the\\nexplanation I ever heard from any man, but it is\\nquite different when you go into the markets of\\nthe world to compete.\\nWe grow in this country four-fifths of all the\\ncotton in the world. For four years we have had\\nfree wool, yet we did not get the markets of the\\nworld or even the South American markets nor\\ndid we hold our own markets on woolen and cot-\\nton goods but we find that England shipped\\nmillions of dollars worth more into the United\\nStates during that period than ever before in the\\nhistory of this country.\\nThe Democrats told us when the Wilson Bill\\npassed that as soon as our people adapted them-\\nselves to the changed condition it would be all\\nright. I agree with them that if we had free trade\\nfor ten or fifteen years, England could not ship in", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. TJ\\na dollar s worth of goods into this country, and we\\nmight, perhaps, get a share of the markets of the\\nworld, because the people would have adapted\\nthemselves, as the Democrats say, to the\\nchanged condition of things; and that condition\\nwould, of course, be just the same condition for the-\\nworking men and working women as it is in other\\ncountries. When that time comes we would be a\\ngreat manufacturing nation. The rich richer, and\\nthe poor would be far below the condition of the\\nslaves in the South in i860.\\nNow let us see how you would sell cotton goods\\nin South America, if you were manufacturing\\nthem in the East. You would first start a man\\ndown there with samples to get orders. The first\\nobstacle he would strike would be a man repre-\\nsenting some English manufacture. You would\\nask two cents and seven-eighths for your print\\ncloth, and the Englishman two and three-fourths\\ncents. If your agent dropped an eighth, the Eng-\\nlishman would also. How many sales would your\\nagent make, and what would he do about it? He\\nwould, no doubt, come home and tell you that he\\ncould not sell goods in South America at your\\nprices. You would take your books and show\\nhim that the net cost of the goods was two and\\nthree-fourths cents. What would he advise you to\\ndo. His expenses down there was a dead loss to\\nyou. Everything he sold was at a loss. You\\nwould, no doubt, read over the Democratic plat-", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "78 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nform: Owing to the intelligence of our work-\\nmen and our improved facilities and natural ad-\\nvantages we can successfully compete with any-\\nforeign nation in the markets of the world. Then\\nyou would start him out again.\\nLet me tell you, my friend, the results as I have\\ngiven you are results of my own trip in this line,\\nand I know they are correct. If I was the manu-\\nfacturer competing for the trade in South America\\nI would put my wages at the same price that the\\nEnglishman paid, and go down there and meet\\nhim with prices that I could make sales. All you\\nhave to do is to give the working people time to\\nadapt themselves to the changed condition of\\nthings; and when the American people become\\nhungry enough to work for wages that would com-\\npete with the Englishman, there would be no\\ntrouble in selling goods in South America.\\nForeign manufacturers are making goods cheaper\\nthan we are, and can undersell the American man-\\nufacturer. That is all there is in it. This is the\\nreason that over $34,000,000 worth of manufactured\\ncotton goods, and $44,000,000 of woolen goods\\nwere imported into this country last year. These\\nadded together make $78,000,000 worth of man-\\nufactured cotton and woolen goods that were\\nbrought here and sold last year. Suppose these\\ngoods had been made in the United States\\nby the American people, do you think we would\\nhave had 380,000 good honest mechanics on the", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 79\\ntramp looking for work, as these Democratic free\\ntrade papers tell you was a fact?\\nThe Democrats of Michigan tell you that Ow-\\ning to the intelligence of our workmen, and our\\nimproved facilities and natural advantages we can\\nsuccessfully compete with any foreign nation in the\\nmarkets of the world. What a set of liars they\\nare We cannot hold our own market.\\nFirst, I deny their statement that the men and\\nwomen who work in our American mills are more\\nintelligent than those who work in the mills of\\nEngland and I will make the statement broader\\nby saying that the workmen who work in English\\nmills are better educated than those who work in\\nthe cotton and woolen mills of America. There\\nis only nine per cent, of the English people who\\ncannot read and write, while there are over thir-\\nteen per cent, of our American people in the same\\ncondition. A good part of the men and women\\nwho work in our mills are foreigners from almost\\nevery country on the globe.\\nIn the State of Maine twenty-four per cent, of\\nthe foreign population cannot read or write that\\nof New Hampshire twenty-four per cent. Ver-\\nmont, twenty-five per cent. Massachusetts, sixteen\\nper cent. Rhode Island, t\\\\yenty-two per cent.,\\nand Connecticut, fifteen percent. So then we find\\ntheir first statement a bonified lie.\\nThey also say, with our improved facilities.\\nI would like to know what improved facilities we", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "80 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nhave that England has not. They have cheap\\ncoal, cheaper labor, the very same machinery,\\ncheaper money. They have their own vessels for\\ncarrying their goods to every part of the world,\\nwhile we have to export ours in their ships. The\\nnext is natural advantages. Why cannot they\\ntell us what those natural advantages are that we\\nhave? Surely not more water power, surely not\\ncheaper coal, surely not better air to breathe.\\nThey have never told us what they are, and they\\nnever will. These free traders tell us our Amer-\\nican workmen are more active, and do more work\\nthan the workmen of other countries. If it is true\\nthat our people do more work than people in\\nother nations, it certainly shows a reduction of\\nwages for the American people.\\nMany men seem to think that the poor people\\nwere just born to work, and they want to see just\\nhow much they can get out of them. I have\\nknown large contractors who were looking for a\\nman that could push the men. I have heard them\\nsay that such a man was a good one to handle\\nmen, for he could get more work out of them than\\nany man they ever saw. What they want is a\\nnigger driver that is the sort of a man they want.\\nTake a man who has been made a foreman in\\nsome large factory, if he is a kind-hearted man\\nand treats the men with kindness and respect, he\\ndoes not retain his position very long.\\nIt is impossible to get the markets of the world", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 8 1\\nexcept by the same method other countries get\\nthem. I wonder why it is that none of these free\\ntrade fellows think of running a factory and show-\\ning the people how it is done If it is true, as\\nthose Michigan Democrats tell us, that Owing to\\nthe intelligence of our workmen and the improved\\nfacilities and natural advantages we can success-\\nfully compete with any foreign nation in the mar-\\nkets of the world, then these free trade people\\nhave a snap. They would not even have to invest\\nanything to secure a fortune at once.\\nThere are thousands of manufacturers who would\\nbe willing to pay anything for a manager that\\ncould run their factory and supervise the selling of\\ntheir goods in foreign markets. If I knew, I would\\neither go to work and manufacture the goods and\\nshow the people how it could be done, or I would\\ntake a salary of $25,000 or $50,000 a year and\\nlearn the manufacturers of this country how it\\ncould be done. There is no trouble about getting\\n$100,000 the first year, if you can tell the manu-\\nfacturers how to sell goods in foreign markets and\\ncompete with other foreign manufacturers, without\\nreducing the price of labor in this country. I will\\nproduce the manufacturer now manufacturing cot-\\nton goods in the East who will employ any man\\nwho says he can do it, and give him $25,0003\\nyear. The mill is one of the largest and best\\nequipped in the world. They would, of course,\\nrequire you to give bond, so your part of the con-", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "82 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ntract would be carried out. You to buy the cotton\\nas best you could, pay the hands what other mills\\npay in this country, no more select your own\\nsalesmen, and place the goods at one-sixteenth of\\na cent a yard profit. Now you can either do this\\nor you can not. This, I think, would be a good\\nposition for the editor of the Chronicle^ as I hardly\\nthink he is making $25,000 a year with that paper.\\nNow if you can do it, let us hear from you. This\\noffer is also open to the Michigan Democrats.\\nAnother proposition of $25,000 a year for five\\nyears from a coal mining company for a man who\\nwill show them how to advance the wages of the\\nworkmen, and still sell the coal at a profit of fif-\\nteen cents a ton. All they ask is a good bond, so\\nyou will be sure to do it, and not run them in debt.\\nNow either come out or shut up. Do not tell us\\nabout what can be done unless you know how. I\\nhave tried it as a salesman and failed. I went back\\nto the mill and told the company it could not be\\ndone, unless they could reduce the labor so to save\\nthree-eighths of a cent a yard.\\nThese free traders claim that under the Wilson\\nBill we exported more manufactured goods. If it\\nbe true, they ought to cower before the reports of\\ntheir own free trade papers in regard to the condi-\\ntion of the working people in this country to-day.\\nLook around you You are not blind. See the\\nhungry men and women. Hunger will make them\\nwork cheap. Free trade will make hungry men", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 83\\nand women just the same in America as it does in\\nother countries, and cheap labor will get the mar-\\nkets of the world. Nothing else will.\\nThe old woman in St. Louis making pants at\\nfifteen cents a dozen was not the only one working\\nfor the markets of the world. There are others.\\nIn New York, on a small patch of land less\\nthan a mile square, is a human hive where 175,000\\npeople live, if we may call that living, to which the\\nhome of the savage in the African jungle seems\\nlike paradise. These toilers in New York live in\\nthose cheerless rooms, that tower on either side like\\nprisons, into which God s blessed sunshine never\\ncomes. The air is foul with the messes that they\\neat yet this food and this shelter is their only re-\\nquital for long hours of weary and killing toil. Do\\nyou expect any of God s creatures will be content\\nwith such a dole for constant labor? Not while\\nthe world exists. Not till the judgment day.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIL\\nOUR MERCHANT MARINE.\\nLET us see what protection has done for\\nour merchant marine. You sometimes hear\\nsmart politicians on the stump tell about our pro-\\ntective tariff taking our flag off the sea. They\\ntell you that nearly all our imports and ex-\\nports are being carried in foreign ships. These\\nare facts. Our merchant marine has been killed\\nby protection, and more freight was carried by\\nAmerican ships in 1810 than is being carried to-\\nday. In i860 there were carried in American\\nships 5,290,000 tons. In 1896 we only carried\\n4,700,000 tons, while England carried in i860, 5,-\\n700,000 tons, and in 1896, 13,500,000 tons, and I\\nadmit protection has done it.\\nEngland began by protecting her interests. She\\nbegan way back in the thirties to pay her merchant\\nmarine a subsidy, and every few years she in-\\ncreased this subsidy until at one time, she was\\npaying her lines nearly $5,000,000 every year.\\nFor years the subject of a subsidy for our Amer-\\nican lines was discussed in Congress, while each", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 85\\nyear more of our freight was being carried in Eng-\\nlish ships. Nothing was done, however, until\\nabout 1850, when Congress voted a subsidy of\\n$200,000 to the Collins Line. England immedi-\\nately doubled her subsidy to the Cunard Line,\\nmaking it nearly a half million dollars a year. No\\nline could compete with this, and in a few years\\nthe Collins Line died.\\nFrance, Norway, Germany, and other countries\\nfollowed England s example with these results In\\n1850 France carried 686,000 tons, while in 1896 she\\ncarried 1,148,000 tons. Norway carried in 1850\\n298,000 tons, and in 1896 she carried 1,700,000\\ntons. Germany carried in 1850, 558,000 tons, and\\nin 1896 she carried 2,000,000 tons. Yes; pro-\\ntection has done it. Those countries know what\\nprotection means, and they protect everything they\\nhave that can be protected. With our agricultural\\nadvantages England would have done better.\\nEngland knew she must seek the markets of the\\nworld for the sale of her goods that her working\\npeople might have employment; so she protected\\nthem to the extent of her power. I firmly believe\\nthat England, under the conditions that exist in\\nAmerica, would have protected her people from the\\npauper labor of the world, and given them higher\\nwages than the American people ever dreamed of.\\nShe protected them with millions from her treasury,\\nand had she had this vast country she would never\\nhave forced her people to export four-fifths of all", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "86 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nthe cotton raised in the world, at prices that do\\nnot pay the planter a living. She would never\\nhave forced the corn raiser to export his corn when\\nhe did not receive ten cents per bushel at the farm.\\nShe would never have had 380,000 of her citizens\\non the tramp looking for work at any price. She\\nwould never have forced a woman to make trousers\\nat fifteen cents a dozen. She never would have\\nallowed foreign emigrants to land on these shores\\nand in one year s time hold office under the flag,\\nand not able to even speak the English language.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIIL\\nFREE SILVER THE COLD HARD FACTS.\\nLAST year we had the great campaign of edu-\\ncation Free silver, gold standard, and re-\\nform of the currency. That is what they told us.\\nThe majority of the working men in this country\\nvoted for free coinage of silver on a ratio of six-\\nteen to one. They were told that with free coinage\\nof silver everything would be cheap that they had\\nto buy, and everything they had to sell would be\\nhigh. They were told about the great crime of\\n1873 when silver was demonetized. It is useless\\nto go into the details of that campaign. It is\\nalready fresh in your minds, but we can look at\\nsome of the cold hard facts.\\nFirst, every word said in favor of a gold stand-\\nard, every word said about free coinage of silver\\non a ratio of sixteen to one, every word said about\\nreforming the currency, are wasted words. You\\nmight just as well say that Congress should pass a\\nlaw that the moon shall shine just as brightly in\\nthe night as does the sun in the day; but t\\\\v^ fact\\nis, the moon would not do it. Neither will silver\\nremain on a parity with gold at any ratio the Gov-", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "88 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nernment might name, or, in fact, all the govern-\\nments of the world. No ratio can be named by\\nwhich silver can remain on a parity with gold any\\ngreat length of time.\\nThe facts are that these rich mining companies\\nare mining silver at about fifty-three cents per\\nounce, and getting rich out of it. They can mine\\nmore silver to-day with the help of one hundred\\nmen than they could thirty years ago with 500\\nmen. Sixty million ounces of silver were mined\\nand put upon the market last year. Perhaps you\\ndo not know that those rich mine owners would\\nnot have mined this silver unless they made a\\nprofit. If you do not, you have very little sense.\\nSupposing it was possible to establish free coin-\\nage on a ratio of sixteen to one, what would you\\nget out of it? Not a five cent piece. It would\\nonly give the mine owners one hundred per cent,\\nprofit, and open up hundreds of mines that are\\nnot rich enough to pay at the present price of sil-\\nver, and the markets would be flooded and glutted\\nwith silver. Increase in use, however great, would\\nbe met by increase of production, and you would\\nsoon have a money that would not be worth much\\nmore than pig iron. International agreement could\\nnot help it any more than it could fix the price of\\npig iron. The present production of gold is so\\ngreat as to meet the wants of the whole world.\\nMore than $200,000,000 were mined out and put\\nupon the market last year. Should they find a", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 89\\ncountry rich with gold ore and could mine large\\nquantities at half the cost as at present, you would\\nsee gold take a tumble in the markets of the world,\\nand all the governments on the globe could not\\nprevent it. You may learn some time that supply\\nand demand make the price of everything in the\\nworld; but I doubt if you live long enough.\\nWell, you say, American silver dollars are\\njust as good as gold dollars. So is a Government\\nnote, and both will remain so just as long as the\\nGoverment will redeem them in gold, and no\\nlonger. This they are doing.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2But, you say, there is no law by which the\\nUnited States is compelled to redeem her silver\\nwith gold.\\nMy friend, the United States does redeem her\\nsilver with gold every day in the year and when-\\never she declines to do so she cannot pass a single\\none of them for more than fifty cents. I know\\nthere is no law on the statue books to that effect,\\nbut when the importer in New York or other cities\\nbuy their goods in England, or other foreign coun-\\ntries on sixty days time, those goods must be paid\\nfor in gold. The importer sells his goods all over\\nthe United States, and takes his pay in paper and\\nsilver. He gets very little gold. At the end of\\nsixty days he must remit a gold draft, or send the\\ngold coin. Tell me, please, where he will get the\\ngold with his paper and silver to settle this debt?\\nYou do not know, do you? He will get it from", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "90 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nthe United States Government through his bank.\\nShould they refuse to give him the gold for his\\npaper and silver it would be known in every part\\nof the world in one hour s time, and the Ameri-\\ncan silver dollar, with its eagle and In God We\\nTrust, would not be worth more than fifty cents\\nanywhere on the globe; and you, my reader,\\nwould not take it for any more. The American\\nsilver dollar will pass for one hundred cents in\\nEurope simply because the banks there can ship\\nit back to this country and draw gold against it.\\nAnd for no other reason.\\n**NO SUCH THING AS MONETIZATION OR\\nDEMONETIZATION/\\nThe man who does not believe there is a law\\ncompelling the United States to redeem her silver\\nwith gold in order to keep it on a parity with gold\\nis far behind the times. There are some laws not\\nmade by Congress that must be obeyed, and this\\nis one of them. Gold is the standard money in\\nevery country on the earth, and if all the nations\\nof the earth demonetized gold, and make silver a\\nlegal tender, gold would still be the standard\\nmoney of the world just the same. There is no\\nsuch thing as monetization or demonetization. No\\ngovernment can by law or by stamping enhance", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 9 1\\nthe value of any metal, except by redeeming that\\nmetal with something more valuable. Whenever\\nI dig twenty-two and eight-tenths grains of gold\\nout of the ground I have so much money. I do\\nnot ask any government to stamp it, or to pass a\\nlaw making it a legal tender, or to name it a dollar,\\nor a franc, or anything else. I would be none the\\nricher by it, because they could not put any value\\ninto the metal.\\nGold is in demand simply because it is used in\\nthe arts and should the demand for it in the arts\\ncease entirely it would not be worth anything.\\nAnd so it is with everything else in the world.\\nNothing can be money unless it has the value with-\\nin itself. Nothing ever was, and never will be. Its\\nvalue will be according to its demand. Supply\\nand demand make its value, and the use of any-\\nthing as money will not make a demand, because\\nevery coin is on the market all the time. It must\\nhave the value in it to start with.\\nMONEY CANNOT BE MADE BY LAW/*\\nOh, you are one of those who want money made\\nby law, are you? All I can say to you is, you\\nnever had any that was made by law, and you\\nnever will. Yes, of course you know better. You\\nhave a five dollar bill in your pocket that will", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "92 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nbuy just as much as a five dollar gold piece; so\\nhave I, but it is not money. Never was, and never\\nwill be. If it was money, why should they print\\non it, Will pay to the bearer five dollars. I\\nhave some paper money made by law myself, and\\nby the laws of the United States of America. It\\nis stamped United States of America, two dollars,\\nbut I could not buy one soda cracker with a mil-\\nlion dollars of it.\\nOh, you say, that is the old Continental\\nmoney with which the United States paid the Rev-\\nolutionary soldiers. That was repudiated. Yes,\\nthat is so. Now suppose the United States had\\npaid them in twenty dollar gold pieces, how in the\\nname of God could they have repudiated them?\\nIf you know, speak out and let us know.\\nI am in favor of paying the working people of this\\ncountry in money that cannot be repudiated by the\\nUnited States. The working people make all the\\nmoney in the world, and I am against paying them\\nin old paper rags that can be made worthless by\\none act of Congress. I do not object to the Gov-\\nernment or National Bank notes of this country,\\nbut I want every dollar of it payable on demand\\nin shining, glittering gold. Let the working peo-\\nple stop voting for a money made by law, and\\nthat can be unmade in twenty minutes by a few\\nlittle two by four lawyers in Congress. Demand\\nmore good money for your labor, and vote so you\\ncan get it, and live like Americans ought to live.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 93\\nNOTHING IS MONEY THAT HAS TO BE PAID,**\\nI have had them tell me that anything was\\nmoney that would pass a bank note, a Govern-\\nment note, or a bank check. I have had them\\nhunt up authorities on money to show me the\\ndefinition of money. But **the proof of the pud-\\nding is in the eating; and when I have a check\\non the bank, and the bank fails and cannot pay, I\\nhave sense enough to know that the check I hold\\nis not money. If I have a Government note or\\nbill, and the Government repudiates it, I know-\\nenough to know that the note or bill never was\\nmoney. I know enough to know that nothing is\\nmoney that has to be paid. When you have a\\nGovernment note or bill and want the money, you\\ntake it to the Government and they will pay it. If\\nyou have a bank note or check you do the same.\\nIf you had a twenty dollar gold piece, what a fool\\nyou would be running round looking for somebody\\nto pay it. You would not fear bank failures or\\nrepudiation by the Government. You would have\\ntwenty dollars in money. Nothing is money that\\nhas to be paid or that can be repudiated.\\nWhat a working man wants of free coinage of\\nsilver on a ratio of sixteen to one I cannot under-\\nstand. What I want is more money for my work,\\nso I can live better and work less. Why should I\\nvote to pay these rich miners $1.29 per ounce\\nfor their silver, when it would do me no good?", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "94 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nThey will bring their silver to the mint in a bag,\\nand they will hold this same bag at the hopper\\nand catch every cent of it. Mexico is on a silver\\nbasis, but twenty-two and eight-tenths grains of\\ngold will buy two Mexican silver dollars in Mex-\\nico. There is plenty of money, gold and silver\\nand there are bank checks, bank notes, banks\\ndrafts. United States notes all are good just so\\nlong as they will pay them with money. I want\\nmore of them, and I want to be sure they can and\\nwill pay them with money. The only way for me\\nto get more of it is to get rid of this surplus of\\nlabor, so there will not be a dozen men after my\\njob every month, as is the case now. That can\\nonly be done by restricting immigration, and giv-\\ning us a tariff that will not force us to compete with\\nall the low paid labor of the world. Give the\\nworking people good wages, and they will con-\\nsume more. Give the Southern people ten cents\\nper pound for their cotton at the farm. Give\\nthe corn raiser forty cents a bushel in the West for\\nhis corn. Give the coal miner from three to four\\ndollars a day. Give every man who labors money\\nenough so he can live well and work only eight\\nhours a day ten months a year. Do not try to do\\nimpossible things. Let the American people live.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nFOREIGN IMMIGRATION.\\nIN the year 1897 we received into the United\\nStates 329,000 people from foreign countries.\\nThirty-seven thousand four hundred could not read\\nor write in their own language. These people,\\nmost of whom were born in poverty and ignorance,\\nand raised almost in slavery, are used to hardships\\nand privations. They come to this land of free\\nAmerica, and make for us a surplus of labor; and\\nby low wages drive out our American young men\\nfrom the fields.\\nIt is so in our cotton mills. It is so in our min-\\ning industry. It is so in our iron and steel works,\\nand it is so in many other factories and mills.\\nI saw them at work building a street car line in\\nthe East, last summer, through the suburban towns.\\nNot one American was employed on the whole\\nline. No less than 68,000 Italians were received at\\nCastle Garden, New York, last year, and in 1900\\nthey will cast their votes to make laws for the\\nAmerican people, while the young men of nineteen\\nand twenty years of age in our colleges, and our", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "96 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nboys from sixteen to eighteen in our high schools,\\nmust stand by and see these ignorant foreigners,\\nfrom every country on the globe, walk up to the\\npolls, and make laws for them. Heartless Cruel\\nIt is without one atom of common sense.\\nI am aware of the fact that a good part of our\\nforeign people who come to this country have\\nmade good citizens, and I think it right for us to\\ntake what we can use and give them the benefit of\\nfreedom and liberty. But when a man takes into\\nhis family so many poor, aged, and decrepit per-\\nsons, that will starve his own family and them also,\\nI think that man a fool, and a greater one when he\\nwill allow them to dictate to him how he shall run\\nhis household affairs.\\nIf I meet a great number of people traveling\\nwho are worn and sick, it is right that I should\\ntake into my wagon, all that I can carry comforta-\\nbly and safely. But if I take in the whole multi-\\ntude and break down my wagon so none of us can\\nride, I would consider it anything but common\\nsense.\\nI believe there should be a restriction of our im-\\nmigration to not less than one-third of what it is\\nto-day. Not from any one country, but from all.\\nThis would mean better times for the American\\npeople, and better times for those who came. The\\nforeigner who has been in this country long enough\\nto learn the principles upon which this Govern-\\nment was founded, surely can see that there must", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 97\\nbe a restriction of our immigration, or he, too, will\\ngo down with the rest to poverty and distress.\\nThe immigration we are getting now is not the\\nrosy-cheeked German or Irish lad. They are\\ncoming from every nook and corner of the earth.\\nThe poorest and lowest in the world. We are\\ndriving our American working men to starvation\\nprices, and there is not an argument in favor of\\nour keeping it up any longer. Why should we\\ngive to the foreign emigrants who are ignorant of\\nour laws, ignorant of our institutions, ignorant of\\nour language, or their own, what we withhold from\\nour own American young men who are educated\\nwith every detail of this Government, and with the\\nhistory of every other?\\nWe force our young men to remain here twenty-\\none years before we allow them to cast a vote\\nand during all these years we are educating them,\\nstep by step, so they may understand the princi-\\nples of our Republican form of Government, and\\nbe able to use their right of franchise for the bet-\\nterment of this country. As soon as they receive\\nthis right they find their vote killed by some for-\\neign hobgoblin, who cannot tell you the year or\\nthe month. These ignorant foreigners are taught\\nas soon as they land that they have a vote in this\\ncountry; and they are also taught that that vote\\nhas a value. This is all that they have in this\\nworld that has a value, and they sell it to the high-\\nest bidder. Who are those bidders? They are", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "98 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nthe ward heelers in our cities and towns who are\\ncontroled by saloon keepers, gamblers, and thugs.\\nYou will find many of this class holding Federal\\noffice in this great American republic, as well as\\nlegislators and city councilmen. In half the States\\na foreigner can vote in six months.\\nAs long as I have a vote I will give it to no\\nparty unless that party pledges itself to establish\\na national election law that will allow no man to\\nvote, or become a citizen in this country, until he\\nhas lived here twenty-one years, and can read and\\nwrite the English language.\\nI am aware of the fact that we have many good\\nmen in office in this country who are of foreign\\nbirth. They are the very men who are against\\nmaking a farce of our elections. The young men\\nborn of foreign parents and educated in this coun-\\ntry are not in favor of having our ballot sold and\\nbartered by men not competent to write the word\\nliberty, and knows nothing of its meaning. Every\\nman ought to be willing that every American citi-\\nzen should have the right to express his opinion\\nat the polls; and they ought also to demand that\\nhe should have an opinion to express.\\nThe Republican party has been for years trying\\nto put the ignorant class in control over the edu-\\ncated and intelligent class in the Southern States.\\nThe Republican party in the North have stumped\\nthe country at every Presidential campaign with\\ntheir mouths full of poisoned venom against the", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\n99\\nSouthern white men. They have told the people\\nin the North that all the gentlemen in the South\\nwere negroes. They have told us that there was\\nno loyalty there except among this colored gentry.\\nBut when the war with Spain came on we found\\nBagleys and Hobsons there by the thousand. Who\\nwere they? They were of the old Revolutionary\\nstock; truly American. We of the North are just\\nbeginning to learn that in no part of this globe\\ncan we find a more intelligent, braver, and truer\\nclass of people than right down in our Southern\\nStates and we ought by this time to appreciate\\nthem as American citizens. No man believes that\\nthe negro in the South is allowed at all times to\\ncast his ballot as he wishes. It is not true. If it\\nwere true, it would mean ruin to most parts of that\\nfair Southern land. I am not the only Northern\\nman who has had his eyes opened on this question.\\nIt is useless to tell me that our educated Irish\\ncitizen, who has toiled in this country many years\\nto educate his children, wants to stand at the polls\\nin 1900 and see his vote killed, or that of his edu-\\ncated boy, by some ignorant bear dancer from\\nPoland.\\nIt is useless to tell me that our German citizens,\\nwho have been here long enough to understand\\nthe principles upon which this country was founded,\\nand whose children have been educated in our\\nhigh schools, wants to have their votes killed at the\\npolls in 1900 by some ignorant man from Italy,\\nUtfa", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "lOO POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nPortugal, or even from Germany, for they know\\nthere is no common sense in it. The boys born in\\nAmerica are educated, and we know it is not right\\nto allow these ignorant men from any part of the\\nworld to come here and make laws for them.\\nYou know these are facts that I have stated,\\nwhether you were born in this country or some\\nother. What we want is a party with the princi-\\nples of real common sense for a platform, and\\nevery man who wishes to benefit his condition will\\nvote for it.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nSENATORS SHOULD BE ELECTED BY DIRECT\\nVOTE OF THE PEOPLE*\\nTHE working people tell about the money power\\nin this country enslaving the poor; they tell\\nus about the millionaire buying himself into the\\nUnited States Senate yet they are the very ones\\nwho make it possible for the millionaire to do so.\\nNo man ever yet bought anything until he found\\nthe man who had it for sale.\\nThe claim is made that the millionaires buy up\\nour legislators, paying many times more for the\\nofBce than the entire salary would amount to for\\nthe full term and yet making millions out of the\\nofftce before they retire.\\nIt is true that in this year [1899] our United\\nStates Senate is made up mostly of wealthy men.\\nNearly one-half of whom are millionaires. Some\\nare rated far above that sum. Direct charges have\\nbeen made against a number of our senators for\\nbribery, but I want to tell you that millions of\\ndollars are a stronger breastwork against the laws\\nthan any other barrier on the face of the earth.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "102 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nThere is hardly a doubt in my mind but many\\nsenators have bought their seats in the American\\nCongress. There is hardly a doubt in my mind\\nbut money is the whole thing in all our elections,\\nbeginning at the justice of the peace and going on\\nup to the President of the United States. The\\nparty without money can never make much head-\\nway. The strength of party to-day is in buying\\nup the votes of these hard-handed sons of toil,\\nwho puff and blow like a steam engine through the\\nstreets and in the grog shops of our cities and\\ntowns. The strongest pull and the surest pull for\\nthe Senate of the United States with our State\\nLegislatures is money. The poor little fellow who\\nbutts up against the millionaire in the race will\\nhardly know what hit him. All we can ever do is\\nto make it as hard for the millionaire as we can.\\nMake him spend all the money we can, and beat\\nhim if we can. Our only hope is to elect our sen-\\nators by the direct vote of the people. Then we\\ncan save our profane words we now devote to our\\nlegislators, and pour them out to the people where\\nthey now belong.\\nOh, but you say let us elect honest men to\\nthe Legislature then we will have no trouble.\\nLet me give you a little picture, my friend. Our\\nState Legislatures are made up of something like\\none hundred and fifty members, more or less.\\nMost of them go there with the idea that in about\\nfour years more he will be governor of his great", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. IO3\\nState, and he can also see the Senate chamber and\\nthe Presidential chair not far in the future. His\\ncup of happiness is almost full. Not quite, how-\\never, for he has spent a great deal of money in\\nmaking his race; in fact, more than he thought.\\nHe has found that his entire salary will not begin to\\nmake him whole. He intends to run for the State\\nSenate at the next election, and he begins to think\\nabout how much more money it will take to put\\nhim through in that race than it did to land him in\\nthe Legislature.\\nJust as he gets deeply interested in his figures\\nsome one calls and introduces himself as Col.\\nBrown, and wants to see him privately. As soon\\nas they are alone the colonel takes out a long roll\\nof paper and tells him that this bill will be brought\\nup in the house at this term, and he wants his\\nvote in favor of it. He explains all its good points,\\nand then asks, bluntly, if he will vote for it. The\\nlittle fellow hems and coughs, and says, he will\\nthink the matter over. That does not satisfy Col.\\nBrown. He argues with him for some time, and\\nfinally tells him that he wants his support and vote\\nfor this bill. But, he adds, we do not expect\\nyou to work for us on this, without paying you\\nwell for the extra expense you are likely to incur.\\nThe colonel then takes out a roll of bills about\\nthe size of a man s leg, and chips off ten fifty dol-\\nlar bills, and hands them to Mr. Jones, with the\\nremark that he intends to show him that the ex-", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "I04 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\npense he may unavoidably have will be paid and\\nadds, with a smile, You take this, and any extra\\nexpense will also be settled by us when the bill is\\npassed.\\nWhen the colonel has gone he sits down again\\nand begins his figuring on the probable cost of his\\ncampaign for State senator. He soon hears a\\ngentle tap on his door, and some one says Jones,\\nare you in? Yes, come in. Why, how are you.\\nSmith? Take a chair. Well, Jones, I want a\\nlittle private talk with you. No one round, is\\nthere, Jones? No, we are perfectly safe here.\\nJones, Col. Paul has just arrived, and wanted me\\nto see you and find out if you would support him\\nfor Senator. He wants to know tonight. Smith,\\nI cannot see how I can vote for Col. Paul, although\\nI admire the colonel, and am free to admit that he\\nwould make us a good senator; perhaps the best\\nwe could get, but I halfway promised to vote for\\nBill Gordon. Well, Jones, Col. Paul would make\\nus the best senator of any man in the State. You\\nknow he has lots of money, and could influence\\nother capital to come here and build up this coun-\\ntry. Besides all this, Jones, whoever sticks to the\\ncolonel is sure of a friend all through life. Col.\\nPaul is very anxious to see you tonight, Jones\\nand if you will see him I will call for you about\\nhalf-past ten. All right. Smith, I will see him;\\nbut I cannot see how I can conscientiously drop\\nBill Gordon.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I05\\nAt eleven o clock that night we find them in a\\nlittle dark office up town talking to Jones of the\\nbenefits he will receive by voting for Col. Paul.\\nBut Jones still holds out for Bill Gordon.\\nFinding they cannot persuade Jones they all\\nleave, with the excuse that they will return in a few\\nminutes, except a little hatchet-faced fellow, who\\nhas said nothing up to this time. As soon as the\\nfootsteps of the others die away the little hatchet-\\nfaced fellow draws up to the table before Jones,\\npulls out $200.00 in gold, and lays it on the table.\\nLooking Jones squarely in the eye he says: Mr.\\nJones, we want your vote. Jones turns red in the\\nface and rising to his feet says: Do you think\\nyou can buy me The little hatchet-faced fellow\\nputs his hand on his shoulder and says: Mr.\\nJones, sit down. We want your vote, at the same\\ntime putting $500.00 more on the table. And as\\nhe stood there he added to it until that table was\\npiled high with shining, glittering gold, and Jones\\nface had turned to deathly pallor. Then he took\\nthe little hatchet-faced fellow s hand in his trem-\\nbling one and whispered, Col. Paul shall have my\\nvote. And Col. Paul got it.\\nYou ask me what I think would have happened\\nif they had sent some working man to the Legisla-\\nture instead of Jones? I think it would have cost\\nCol. Paul less money in his race for senator.\\nThe human race is past finding out. One man\\ncondemns another, and we soon find that he is a", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "1 06 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nhundred times worse than the one he condemns.\\nNo confidence in one another. The street car\\nconductor must punch in the presence of the pas-\\nsenger. The man who holds any position of\\ntrust must give bonds on down to the clerk in the\\nstore who is not allowed to make change or rap up\\nhis sales. A check is put upon every man and no\\none is looked upon as honest. It reminds me of\\nthe poet who said\\nThis world is all a fleeting show,\\nTo man s delusion given\\nNot an honest man left on earth,\\nAnd hardly one in heaven.\\nThe only way we can do is to put a check on\\nour millionaires by electing them by direct vote of\\nthe people. And if money is to win the election,\\nlet it be more evenly divided, and not let Jones\\nand a few more have it all. Let the people do the\\nvoting, and then they can curse the people instead\\nof the State Legislature.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "A\\nCHAPTER XL\\nLABOR UNIONS/\\nS far back as I can recollect we have had Labor\\nUnions and from time to time the names of\\nthese Unions have been changed Hke the temper-\\nance organizations. We have one organization for\\na time that seems to take, and when the interest\\nbegins to lag up jumps another, bearing a difTer-\\nent name that has a run for a while, and then\\ndies like the rest. I do not object to Labor\\nUnions or temperance organizations, but the\\nUnions have done the laboring people no good,\\nfor they are working for less wages than they did\\nfifteen years ago. The temperance organizations\\nhave done the cause no good and the question\\nwould naturally be asked, What is the matter?\\nThe answer would naturally be given. Neither one\\nor the other have been run in the interest for\\nwhich they were organized.\\nHARDSHIPS OF MANUFACTURERS AND MEN.\\nThe Labor Unions are usually controlled by\\nmen who are unfit for the positions they hold.\\nThey have little idea of the profits of the manu-", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "I08 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nfacturer, or that it is one thing to manufacture\\ngoods, and another thing to dispose of those\\ngoods at a profit. The Unions meet at their rooms\\nand decide that they ought to have more pay for\\ntheir work, so they make out a schedule of prices\\nand submit them to the manufacturer. The man-\\nufacturer looks them over and sees at once that he\\ncannot pay these prices and get out whole, let\\nalone making a cent profit, and naturally he de-\\nclines to advance the wages.\\nAt the next meeting of the Union the men\\ndecide to strike, and away they go. The manu-\\nfacturer has orders ahead that must be filled or\\nhis business will suffer, for he cannot expect to get\\norders from these firms again unless the goods are\\nshipped out promptly. These Union labor people\\nknow this, and they say to one another, We have\\ngot him this time, and he will have to pony up.\\nThe manufacturer sends away to other towns for\\nhelp, and they soon appear. The poor fellows\\nhave been out of work a long time, their families\\non the verge of starvation. They have come many\\nmiles to take the place of the strikers. You can\\nsee poverty and despair written upon every one of\\ntheir faces, just as plainly as if it had been written\\nthere with ink. When they arrive at the factory\\nthey are met by the Union labor people, and what\\ndo you see written upon their faces? Not the\\nwords that are written in the holy book, Love\\nthy neighbor as thyself; not the words, Love one", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. IO9\\nanother, but you see written there, revenge, hatred,\\nand murder. It is just as plainly stamped there\\nas despair is stamped on the faces of those whom\\nthey are calling scabs.\\nYou will not have to wait long before the fight\\nbegins, and it is a desperate one. Despair on the\\none, revenge on the other. Poor hard-working\\nmen battling for an existence on one side poor,\\nhard-working men battling for an existence on the\\nother. The blood of each flows freely legs and\\narms are broken, and some are killed. Police are\\ncalled out, arrests are made, and guards placed\\nover the factory. Still the fight goes on from day\\nto day, and weeks lengthen into months.\\nThe strikers have suffered in those months more\\nthan words can tell. Their wives and children\\nhave suffered as no tongue can portray. And\\nwhat is the result? The men go back at the old\\nprices. The manufacturer has lost a good part of\\nhis business, so he can give them work but a part\\nof the time. The working people are in debt, with\\nno clothes for themselves or families. Thousands\\nof dollars have been sent in from other Unions,\\nwhich have worked a hardship upon those who\\nsent it. The expenses of the great mogul who\\ncame to take charge of the strike had to be paid,\\nand nothing is left them but the cold north wind,\\nwhich reminds them of their terrible condition.\\nYet they keep up their lodges. They still have\\ntheir leaders to support in idleness, and every year", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "I lO POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ntheir condition is worse than the year before. At\\nevery decade they are nearer to the level of the\\nworking people of the old countries. How long\\nthey will keep it up, time alone will tell.\\nCertainly, I will tell you what I would have done\\nhad I been a member of the Union, and wanted\\nthe manufacturer to advance our wages. I would\\nhave said to the Union that I believed every man-\\nufacturer should make five per cent, on the output\\nof his factory. Of course I know that not one\\nmanufacturer in a thousand is making that much\\nnet profit; but I think he should. I would have\\nsaid to the men in the Union, Before we strike let\\nus make a proposition to the firm. I would have\\ndrawn up a petition something like this\\nWe, the undersigned employees of your factory,\\nare not satisfied with the wages being paid us, and\\nrespectfully ask that our wages be raised fifteen\\nper cent, forthwith.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2We think you should be well satisfied with five\\nper cent, net profit on the output of your factory,\\nand we agree to furnish you with men from our\\nUnion who will place the products of your factory\\nat prices so you can make the five per cent, net\\nprofit, and pay us the advance in wages we ask.\\nIf I was not capable of placing the manufact-\\nurer s output at prices where he could do this, and\\ncould find no one in the Union who could, I would\\nnever strike. You may say he would not do this.\\nI claim that he would. If you are able to place", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I I I\\nthe output of any factory at prices where the man-\\nufacturer can make a net profit of five per cent.,\\nyou need not work more than ten years before the\\ninterest on your money will keep you in luxury\\nthe rest of your life.\\nMANUFACTURERS NOT MAKING THE PROFIT\\nTHEY ARE ENTITLED TO.\\nThe cold hard facts are The manufacturer is\\nnot making five per cent, profit on the output of his\\nfactory, and cannot advance your wages neither\\ncan you take his output and sell it so he can make\\na net profit of five per cent, and no man who be-\\nlongs to your Union can do it. The manufacturer\\nhimself cannot do it, neither can he find a man\\nwho can.\\nAny man who has money can manufacture\\ngoods, but the hardest part and the most essential\\npart of the business is selling them at a profit; and\\nthe laboring man never thinks of this. If your\\nUnion people are so smart, and know just what\\nthe manufacturer can or cannot do, why don t they\\nmanufacture a few goods themselves? It is a very\\neasy matter to sit down and tell about how much\\nthe manufacturer is making, but it is not true.\\nThe manufacturers of the United States are not\\nmaking a net profit of five per cent, as a whole\\nand as a whole cannot pay higher wages than they", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "112 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nnow pay. You cannot get a Union man to believe\\nthis, and yet there are none of them capable of\\ndisposing of the goods at a profit, no matter how\\nmuch money you may offer them to do so. And\\nfor this reason I take it for granted that they can-\\nnot do anything they say they can.\\nThe Unions are a good thing, rightly managed\\nbut their policy should be to bring about the con-\\nditions by which the manufacturer could pay them\\na fair wage, and then make him do it; or, in other\\nwords, I want to see the Unions work for better\\nwages for the laboring man, and not work to keep\\nhim down, as they have been doing the past twenty\\nyears.\\nDo you expect the American manufacturer of\\ncotton goods to pay his men two dollars a day\\nwhile the Englishman pays only fifty cents a day,\\nand still compete with the Englishman? You\\nknow better. You know he cannot do it. There\\nis no use in argument on such a question. Then\\nwhy do you not make laws to shut those goods out\\nof this country, instead of voting for free trade\\nDo you expect to win a strike when there are a\\nhundred thousand hungry men ready to take your\\nplaces You know you cannot do that. Then why\\ndo you not vote for congressmen who will work to\\nrestrict emigration, and get rid of some of this\\nsurplus labor?", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. II3\\nTHE AMERICAN BOY BADLY USED.\\nI want to call your attention to one other thing\\nthat your Unions do that is not right. In many\\nfactories you do not allow the manufacturer to take\\nin young men and learn them the trade. The\\nyoung man comes here from the old countries,\\nhaving learned his trade there. He joins the\\nUnion and gets a job while the American boy is\\nshut out. There is nothing right in this, and I\\nshall do all I can to stop it. You want good wages\\nfor your labor in the factory, but you want the\\nfarmer to raise what you have to buy from him for\\nalmost nothing; but you do not think that unLss\\nthe farmer gets a good price for what he produces\\nhe cannot buy many of the goods you make.\\nDISHONESTY THE GREAT TROUBLE.\\nThe farmer tries to get a good price for his\\nproduce, but he does his level best to get what you\\nproduce at the factory for almost nothing, not\\nthinking that unless you are well paid you cannot\\nbuy very much of what he produces. It is dog\\neat dog from one end of this country to the other.\\nEvery working man doing his very best to pull the\\nrest of the laboring men to the bottom and sym-\\npathy for the poor man is wasted. They have\\nworked against one another ever since the world", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "114 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nbegan, and no doubt but they will continue to do\\nso until the end of time.\\nThe Unions have no confidence in one another.\\nThey meet and swear by all that is great and holy\\nthat they will buy no goods except they are Union\\nmade. A few will stick to their promise. The bal-\\nance, knowing that the manufacturer paying Union\\nprices for labor cannot sell his goods as cheap as\\nthe one using scabs and paying low wages, will\\nskulk around and buy the goods where he can buy\\nthe cheapest then go to the Union and take an\\noath that he never bought anything but Union\\nmade goods in his life. The men who do stick to\\ntheir pledge find it out, and get disgusted, then go\\nand do the same thing; and the objects of the\\nUnion are defeated.\\nIf the laboring men would be honest with one\\nanother, and vote for laws that would help them,\\nit would not be long before America would be the\\nEden of the world. Eight hours a day ten months\\nin the year, with pay enough so you can have the\\ncomforts of life and save something for old age,\\nshould be the policy of every working man. But\\ninstead they vote for free trade, and allow the man-\\nufactured goods to come in free, and they must\\ncompete with them.\\nThe farmer votes for free sugar, which forces him\\nto raise cheap corn, cheap wheat, and cheap cot-\\nton. They cry out for expansion and annexation,\\nknowing that the pauper labor from other coun-", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 11$\\ntries will force them to work still cheaper. They\\ngrasp at the shadow of free silver, knowing that it\\nsuch a law was in effect it could do them no good.\\nThey worry about trusts, and who shall run the\\nrailroads and telegraph wires, knowing that who-\\never owns them they will be forced to pay the\\nsame rates. They never think about establishing\\nconditions where they are to be benefited, and\\nnever will.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIL\\nCONDITIONS OF THE COUNTRY IN 1899.\\nWE have now had two years of Republican\\nadministration. Let us take a look at the\\nconditions of the American working people to-day,\\nand the prospects for them in the future. To me\\nit looks as if the future had nothing in store for\\nthem but lower wages and harder times. Let us\\nlook at the Chicago Journal of to-day (Feb. 7\\n1899):\\nAll day long streams of destitute persons is-\\nsued forth from the entrance to the City Hall into\\nthe intense cold without. Most of those in this\\ncurrent of humanity had asked Secretary Campbell,\\nof the Police Department, for food but were as\\nhungry as when they came. Others had pleaded\\nfor coal, but there was none for them. Yet others\\nhad asked for clothes to keep Jack Frost at bay,\\nbut they were as scantily clad as when they came.\\nMothers with babes in their arms were in that dis-\\nconsolate river of life old tottering men, young\\nwives and white-haired women. They lingered", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 11/\\nabout the radiators in the hall, and only reluctantly\\nturned into the street.\\nWe can give no assistance, said Capt. Camp-\\nbell,^ Secretary of the Police Department. We\\nhave no funds. We are bankrupt.\\nWhat makes the above more damnable is to read\\nthe following: Twenty thousand Cubans are be-\\ning fed daily at the expense of the United States.\\nThus we find the conditions on this cold February\\nnight, 1899, after two years of Republican\\nadministration.\\nFive thousand brave American boys have been\\nlaid away under the sod in the past ten months,\\nand they are still dying with disease, and being\\nkilled. Many of these boys were taken from high\\nschools and colleges and sent out to battle on a\\nplea of patriotism.\\nYet this is not the worst. Here is what the\\nChicago Times-Herald, of May 28, 1898, says:\\nThe little babe two months old of Edward Linsey,\\nprivate, Seventh Regiment, I. N. G., died at its\\nmother s breast of starvation. Private Linsey is at\\nCamp Tanner with his regiment, which has been\\nmustered into the service of the United States.\\nPrivate Linsey went to the front with his regiment\\nwith the consent of his wife, and because he could\\nnot get work in Chicago. Although a capable\\nworkman for Gormully Jeffrey, the discharge of\\na large number of men left him idle for two months.\\nHe could not find work. His regiment was or-", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "I I 8 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ndered out. He said to his wife I will go, and\\nthe money I get for being a soldier I will send\\nto you. But his baby died of starvation yes-\\nterday morning, in a bare room at 240 Orleans\\nStreet.\\nThe coroner came, and he said, after careful\\nexamination, that the mother had been so long\\nwithout food that her milk would not support the\\nlittle one, and it died of starvation.\\nThe wife only twenty-six years old called in\\nanother poor woman and the two went to the\\nRookery Building, the headquarters of the Relief\\nSociety of the Seventh Regiment, and asked for\\naid. The answer was: We will send some one\\naround to see you. He did not come, although\\nagain the cry went down to the Rookery Building:\\nI need food and help. So she sat in the little\\nroom caring for the little boy toddling about her\\nand the baby that was crying at a breast that would\\nnot nourish.\\nThe father was begging for his pitiful thirteen\\ndollars a month at Camp Tanner, but the money\\ndid not come. The days passed, and with the\\ndawn of yesterday the baby shut its eyes, and the\\nthin lips came away from the tired and exhausted\\nmother s breast forever.\\nI say there is no excuse for this. It is con-\\ntemptible It is damnable", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. II 9\\nQUESTIONS HARD TO ANSWER.\\nWhy are we at war with the savages of the\\nEastern Hemisphere? Why are we spending a\\nmillion dollars a day in Cuba and the Philippines,\\nand sapping the life s blood of our own people by\\ntaxation Why are we feeding forty thousand bar-\\nbarous people, who are never happy unless cutting\\nsomebody s throat, and leaving our own people to\\ndie of hunger and cold? Why are we so anxious\\nto feed the Cuban soldiers, and let the children of\\nour American soldiers starve to death, while the\\nmother cries out in vain for help? Why are we\\nso anxious to annex those countries to this with its\\nlow-paid labor, and force our farmers and our me-\\nchanics to live as they live? Why has this Gov-\\nernment lost sight of the distress of the American\\npeople? Why are they willing to sacrifice our\\nyoung men in those tropical climates, when one\\ncompany of American boys are worth more to the\\nworld than all the Cubans and Filipinos that were\\never born, or that ever will be born?\\nI can tell you why it is so. The free distribu-\\ntion of Cuban bonds has done it. The lives of\\nour American boys are being sold and bartered\\naway for a promise of reward.\\nLet us take a calm sober view of the situation,\\nand see why we declared war against Spain. Some\\nwill contend it was on account of the blowing up\\nof the Maine but you have only to read the", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "I20 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ndeclaration of war by President McKinley to disa-\\nbuse your minds of that thought. We could not\\ndeclare war on account of the blowing up of the\\nMaine, and hold our own self respect. McKinley\\nknew this, and declared it was for humanity s\\nsake to free Cuba, and not on account of the\\ndestruction of the Maine. Even he had his doubts\\nabout the Maine being blown up by the Spanish\\njust such doubts as a conscientious man might feel\\nof the guilt of an accused person when the evi-\\ndence was circumstantial and not absolutely con-\\nclusive, but enough to tone down that part of\\nhis message to Congress in which he treated of\\nthe Maine. If President McKinley had been able\\nto dispel those lingering doubts, the message would\\nhave been more vigorous. The United States had\\ngiven Spain to understand that if the cruelties in\\nCuba did not cease, our people would intervene to\\nstop them. The blowing up of the Maine was a\\ndastardly, treacherous act, but the Spanish gov-\\nernment promptly disavowed the deed, and called\\nfor a disinterested tribunal of arbitration, and\\npromised reparation if found responsible for\\nnegligence.\\nNot many years ago a mob of American citizens\\nbroke into a prison in New Orleans and shot a\\nnumber of Italian subjects who were awaiting trial.\\nItaly demanded redress. We paid a large indem-\\nnity, although our Government declared its inno-\\ncence. Now would Italy have been justified in", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 121\\ndeclaring war against us because certain individ-\\nuals had murdered her citizens in cold blood?\\nNo more have we any right to hold Spain as a\\nnation -responsible for the act of some wretch\\nwho assassinated our noble boys and destroyed the\\nMaine. War was not declared on account of the\\nblowing up of the Maine, but for the sole purpose\\nof freeing Cuba; and President McKinley himself\\nsaid so. I contend that the United States had no\\nlegal right to declare war against Spain. And I\\ncontend further that the sacrifices this country has\\nmade and is still making are too great for the\\nresults to be obtained. The Cubans are unlike\\nour people. They are half-civilized, hot blooded,\\nand can only be governed by extreme laws and\\nextreme measures.\\nHARDSHIPS OF THE AMERICAN BOYS.\\nWe sent to Cuba last summer during the very\\nsickly season 20,000 of the very best boys we had\\nin America many of them are still there many\\nmore are in the Philippines. These young men\\nwere sent out to those terrible countries, which are\\nhot, malarious, and deathly, to fight the Spaniards.\\nNot to uphold the honor of the United States, not\\nto protect the American flag, or the American\\ncitizen, but to free Cuba. Those boys laid out\\nthere in the wilds of that terrible, deathly island,", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "122 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nthrough the hot summer days, burning with a high\\nfever, and with their tongues parched and swollen.\\nNo water except that taken from lagoons, of which\\nevery swallow breeds death. Lying out there in\\nthose swamps, bleeding, mangled, and torn, crying,\\nin their agony of death, My God My God\\nAs I sit at my desk in the glory of this bright\\nspring morning, and look out upon the swelling\\nbuds and fast coming leaves, which tell the story\\nof nature s resurrection, I say within my soul that\\none of our boys is worth more to the world than\\nall the savages of the earth.\\nWhere comes this for humanity s sake that\\nwe hear so much about Was it humanity to stand\\nby and see our own Americans hungry and cold,\\nand not give them a rag or a bite to eat, while we\\nfeed and clothe twenty thousand Cubans? Was\\nit humanity to send money to pay the Cuban sol-\\ndier, and stand by and see the children of our\\nAmerican soldiers starve to death because we\\nwould not pay them the little pittance of thirteen\\ndollars per month that they had earned? Shame!\\nShame\\nWhat is it we hear from the Philippine Islands?\\nThe Filipinos are striving to be free. They have\\na Constitution and a Congress. They have an\\narmy of fifty thousand men. They are trying to\\nlive under their own government. Talk about our\\ncarrying liberty and blessings to all mankind.\\nEvery once in a while we see in the papers that", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I 23\\nseveral thousand Filipinos had been killed, and\\ntwice as many more wounded, while our loss was\\nonly a few. The fact is, we do not know our loss.\\nThe men who are at the head of this Government\\nare not telling us but the time will come when\\nwe shall know. The mothers of this country are\\nfinding it out every day.\\nThe cry of Secretary Long in his speech at\\nBoston was, Who will pull down the American\\nflag wherever it has been raised? There will be\\nmillions of patriotic Americans who will pull it\\ndown whenever it is raised over a people who are\\nstriving to be free, and they will bring that flag\\nback to America and wipe off the dirt and dust\\nput upon it by this Republican administration.\\nAnd although they can never erase from it the\\nblood of our grand, noble boys. Secretary Long\\nand the balance of the millionaires in Congress\\nand the Senate will learn in November, 1900, that\\nthe conscience of the American people is not dead.\\nWe have another Secretary (Mr. Gage), who\\nsaid at a meeting in Washington in justification of\\nthis war in the Philippines, Christian civilization\\nand five per cent.\\nThe President once said, Forcible annexation\\nwould be criminal aggression. Still criminal ag-\\ngression goes on.\\nIt has certainly proved a fine ending for a war\\nbegun for humanity and liberty to find us killing\\nFilipinos, whose only offence is to resist the attempt", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "124 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nby US to deprive them of that independence, which\\nfor years past they have been spending their Hves\\nand treasure to attain.\\nOne argument used in favor of the annexation\\nof Cuba and the Philippines is that they are in-\\ncapable of self government. If that is so, why\\nshould we be so anxious to make them citizens of\\nthe United States? We certainly have enough of\\nthat class with us now.\\nWHAT ANNEXATION MEANS.\\nThe one great reason why we should not annex\\nthose countries is plain and simple. By doing so\\nour farmers, who now raise corn, wheat, and cotton,\\nwould be obliged to sell those products for less\\nmoney. Less money means a harder life, less to\\neat, less to wear, less to spend, and less education\\nfor their children. It means more. It means that\\nour farmers must come down to the same plane as\\nthe inhabitants of those islands.\\nWhen you reduce the condition of the farmers\\nof the United States, you reduce the condition of\\nevery man who toils. The foundation of this coun-\\ntry is the farmers and to make this country pros-\\nperous you must first make the farmer prosperous.\\nWill you do it by the annexation of Cuba, Hawaii,\\nand the Philippines? Let us see how it would\\nwork. We have 600,000 acres in tobacco, which", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 1 25\\nproduces 500,000,000 pounds. With the cheap\\nlabor in those countries, and tobacco admitted free,\\ndo you suppose our tobacco growers could com-\\npete with them?\\n**Well, say the men who raise wheat, corn, and\\ncotton, let them raise something else. We will\\nbuy our tobacco where we can buy the cheapest.\\nYet there is nothing else for them to do with their\\nland except to put it in wheat, corn, or cotton. Do\\nyou get too large a price for your corn and wheat\\nnow, Mr. Farmer? Do you, Mr. Cotton Grower,\\nget too much for your cotton? Could you get\\nmore for these products if everybody else went\\ninto the business? Do you, Mr. Mechanic, expect\\nto get a better price for your labor when the\\nfarmers have no money to spend Have you lived\\nall this time and do not know that when the farmers\\nare prosperous you are prosperous? Let the\\nfarmer go down, and as sure as the sun rises you\\nwill go down with him. I do not care what business\\nyou are in, or what labor you may perform, there\\nis no way to benefit you except to give to the\\nfarmers a better price for their products. And to\\naccomplish this you must give them something by\\nwhich they can reduce their acreage, and by this\\nmeans reduce the supply.\\nThe question is how can you do this? If yon\\nput a duty of five cents per pound on sugar, and\\na good high tariff on jute, hemp, and other textiles,\\nyou will reduce the acreage of corn, wheat, and", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "126 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ncotton. If you raise the $100,000,000 worth of\\nsugar you now buy from other countries, you will\\nreduce the acreage enough so the corn and wheat\\nraisers and cotton growers will not be obliged to\\ncompete with all the low-paid labor of the world,\\nand they could then live as Americans ought to\\nlive. You cannot make the American farmers\\nprosperous without making every other man in\\nthis country prosperous.\\nNow what effect will the annexation of Cuba,\\nHawaii, and the Philippines have on the American\\nfarmer? It would simply force him to raise cheap\\ncorn, cheap wheat, and cheap cotton. Not only\\ncheap, but lower prices must prevail than ever\\nbefore.\\nFree tobacco from Cuba will, with the cheap\\nlabor there and big plantations run by large cor-\\nporations, produce tobacco so cheap that it will\\nforce our tobacco growers in the North to quit the\\nbusiness, and raise corn and wheat; and it will\\nforce the tobacco grower in the South to raise\\ncotton. The more corn and wheat you raise the\\nlower it will get. Not only will the annexation of\\nthose countries lower the price of farm products,\\nbut it will bring thousands of Malays, Cubans, and\\nChinese to this country to lower the wages of our\\nmechanics, and to compete with the farmer in his\\nproducts of the soil.\\nYou men who toil, I care not what occupation\\nyou may follow, cannot be aware of the effect", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS, 12/\\nwhich such annexation would have upon your\\nwages and incomes.\\nI take the following from the editorial column of\\nthe Boston Herald:\\nThe number of inhabitants of the Philippine\\nIslands is unknown, from the fact that the interior\\nof one of the large islands Mindanao has never\\nbeen entered by its nominal Spanish rulers, and\\nhence it is only known that in its valleys along the\\nhillsides reside an enormous number of natives.\\nMohammedan Malays, in their relations to the\\nSpanish government, are about as independent as\\nthough they had never heard of Spain. The\\nnumber of these people in this and the smaller\\nislands is variously estimated from seven to fifteen\\nmillions. Of course, if we took possession, we\\nwould not be satisfied by collecting a few hundred\\ndollars revenue at one or two trading points upon\\nthe coast. To be useful to us the Philippines must\\nbe made to realize the benefits of modern civiliza-\\ntion by paying taxes. It has been said that the\\nsemi-savage life of the South Sea Islands, with its\\nindependence, absence of worry, responsibility, and\\nwork is preferable to the English wage earner with\\na family to support.\\nNo doubt but what the Malays might in time\\nbe taught the useful arts of- industry and become\\nwage earners, but their advantage as wage earners\\nwill consist for a long time to come, possibly for a\\ngeneration or two, in the fact that their services", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "128 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ncan be obtained for such a relatively small remuner-\\nation. These Malays would consider themselves\\nwell paid if they received eight or ten cents per\\nday. It would quickly be discovered by all forms\\nof contractors that in the Philippine Islands the\\nUnited States possessed a large and untried reser-\\nvoir of cheap labor.\\nWe have emigration laws and alien laws that\\nprevent the Chinese from coming to this country.\\nWe prohibit contracting for labor to be brought\\nfrom foreign countries, but the Philippines in our\\npossession no statute of this kind would be in the\\nleast restrictive. If we should annex those islands\\nthey would be citizens of this country, and under\\nthe Constitution would have equal protection and\\nopportunities of our laws. These Malays under\\nsuch circumstances would have the right to come\\nand go as they pleased. And considering the\\ndevelopments of the contract system and the power\\nwhich an hereditary potentate in the East has over\\nthose who are bound by religious as well as other\\nties to obey him, it would indeed be strange if ar-\\nrangements were not quickly begun by which,\\nthrough payment to local native authorities, thou-\\nsands upon thousands of Malays from the Philip-\\npine Islands might be brought to this country to\\nenter into those various classes of work which re-\\nquire merely unskilled labor and this system\\nwould be far lower than that to which our Italian\\ncontract labor ever descended.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I 29\\nWe also have to consider that there is a large\\nChinese population in the Philippines, and it will\\nbe no easy matter to prevent its growth there,\\nconsidering the ease with which native vessels can\\nland Chinese emigrants upon any of the hundred\\nislands and when once established as citizens of\\nthe Philippine Islands, then by the same token\\nthey will also be citizens of the United States and\\nno law can keep them out of this country.\\nThese are the conditions that will surely come if\\nthe Philippines and Cuba are annexed to the\\nUnited States.\\nThe territory we have annexed from time to\\ntime in the past is very different from the countries\\nwe are now trying to bring into our Union, from the\\nfact that it lay in the Temperate Zone and joined\\nour own besides it was unoccupied by any great\\nnumber of people, and nothing to obstruct our\\nprogress and work. You must have a climate and\\nsoil adaptable to raising good men and women, or\\nthe crop will be a bad one, and, like poor potatoes,\\nunfit for market.\\nThe conditions are very different in Cuba and\\nthe Philippines than in our great South and West\\nthat has been added to the United States in the\\npast hundred years. First, those countries are\\nmore densely populated than most of the States of\\nthis Union, and populated by a race that is not\\nlikely in many generations to lay down the musket\\nand take up the implements of industry. More", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "I30 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ngood American money would have to be expended\\nin those countries to rid the cities and towns of\\ntheir pest holes, and make them fit for habitation,\\nthan it would cost to run the Government of the\\nUnited States.\\nWHAT THE AMERICANS HAVE TO CONTEND\\nWITH HERE.\\nWe found in this country 3,000,000 American\\nIndians. To-day we have 250,000. We have\\ndone everything that could be done to educate\\nthem that they might be self-supporting and take\\na place among men. We have been sadly disap-\\npointed in the result, but we can take heart, for\\nthere is now only 250,000 more to civilize; and\\nthe crack of the rifle keeps on diminishing the\\nnumber.\\nWe have not had much better success with the\\nSouthern negro, notwithstanding the money that\\nhas been expended upon them, and the right to\\nvote and hold ofifice given them. Forty years have\\nnow past, and we read from one of the most intel-\\nligent of their race (Booker Washington) these\\nwords:\\nIt is unfortunate that my people permitted\\nthemselves at the close of the war to be led in\\nsuch a wholesale manner into politics. I do not\\nbelieve it is wise for the Government nor just to the", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I31\\npeople to confer unlimited suffrage upon any-\\nignorant people.\\nThus we find we have had very poor success\\nwith the lower races of our own country, and how\\ncan we expect to have success with a race that is\\nstill lower?\\nWHAT THE WORKING PEOPLE CAN EXPECT.\\nThe American people must arouse themselves\\nand take the reins of government out of the hands\\nof the men who are plotting these changes for the\\nprofit of a few politicians and rich corporations.\\nUnless you do, you will find it harder each year to\\ngain a respectable living, and your children will be\\nhewers of wood and drawers of water. In the\\nolder countries the children follow the father.\\nThe father toils day by day for a mere existence.\\nThe boy looks for nothing better than his father\\nhad, and it goes on from generation to generation.\\nIs it not getting that way very fast in this country?\\nIs there much chance to-day for the poor boy that\\ncan have but a common school education to ever\\nget into business?\\nHow many of our working people can now\\nafford to keep their boys in school, free as they\\nare, until they graduate at the high school? There\\nare hundreds of thousands that cannot, but are\\nforced to take them out that they may earn their", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "132 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\npittance for the support of the family. In the\\nState of Massachusetts, where they boast so much\\nabout their educational advantages, not one boy in\\na hundred ever graduates at the high school, and\\nnot one in thirty ever reach it. No wonder the\\nsupervisor of census at Washington said that The\\nmost ignorance displayed in making out applica-\\ntion for service under the census law came from\\nMassachusetts.\\nWHAT YOUNG MEN MUST ACQUIRE TO\\nSUCCEED.\\nYoung men must now have almost a complete\\neducation before they can secure a situation in any\\nmercantile business, and the first few years the\\nsalary is so low that it will not pay board, so that\\nnone but the sons of the well-to-do can enter that\\nline. The following clipping from the New York\\nSun covers the whole situation\\nYOUNG MEN WANTED!\\nWanted by our merchants;\\nYoung men about nineteen,\\nLiving with their parents,\\nMust be bright and clean\\nTolerable writers.\\nQuick at figures, too,\\nAlso know book-keeping\\nRight straight through and through,\\nUnderstand typewriting", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I 33\\nAnd stenography,\\nKnow three different languages,\\nAnd how to write all three\\nAnd, too, they must have letters\\nFrom those for whom they ve worked,\\nStating they are honest,\\nAnd that they never shirked.\\nThey must be high school graduates.\\nAnd be filled with useful knowledge.\\nBut the preference will be given\\nTo those who ve been through college.\\nNow, the bright young men fulfilling\\nThe above requirements,\\nWill get a weekly salary\\nOf two dollars and fifty cents.\\nFrom the New York Sun.\\nI have just been reading a long editorial in one\\nof our great dailies about the increase in our ex-\\nports of manufactured goods. He tells us about\\nthe great strides we are making in securing the\\nmarkets of the world, and about the prospects for\\ntrade in our newly possessed territory. He does\\nnot tell us wJiy we are exporting more manu-\\nfactured goods, but here is an editorial clipped\\nfrom the Bosto7i Herald, dated Oct. 15, 1898,\\nwhich does tell and tells it plainly:\\nA short time ago we called attention to a\\nhighly interesting series of articles that appeared\\nin the American Wool and Cotton Reporter, on the\\nquestion of labor cost of weaving in American and\\nEnglish cotton mills. This comparative exhibit\\nhas been extended by our contemporary by a very\\ncarefully prepared statement of the comparative", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "134 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\ncost of spinning various threads of cotton -yarns\\nin English and American Mills.\\nAfter a careful technical summary of the\\nmanner in which in England the price for spinning\\nyarn is arrived at, the Reporter says, taking New\\nBedford as a town The most of the spinning mules\\nused there contain 900 spindles or more, and the\\npiecers and back-boys are paid by the spinners.\\nThus a pair of short mules of 1200 spindles,\\nspinning 23 s, earns $9.27 a week. The back-boy\\nis paid 35 cents a day, or $2.10 a week by the\\ncompany, and no piecer is allowed. The cost in\\nwages is $11.37 for spinner and back-boy. The\\nproduction is 1500 pounds per week, at a cost for\\nspinner and back-boy wages of about seven mills\\nper pound. In England, the same production costs\\nthe manufacturers, with the addition for course\\ncounts and the use of tubes, $16,97; 0^ nearly a\\nhalf more than it costs the American manufacturer\\nper pound.\\nTake another example The spinner pays a\\npiecer $5.22 per week, and a back-boy $2.45 per\\nweek; the mules contain 180 spindles, running on\\n50 s, producing 27 hanks per spindle, or 48,608\\nhanks per week of 58 hours. The price paid is\\n.0333 per hundred hanks, or $16.18 per week. The\\nweight is 972 pounds, and costs the manufacturer\\ni^ cents per pound for spinning. In England the\\nprices for spinning the same under the same con-\\nditions, would be $16.68 per hundred pounds.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I 35\\nThe difference in this respect is but slight, but,\\nsuch as it is, it shows that the English manu-\\nfacturer pays more for the same work than the\\nAmerican manufacturer.\\nThis is the reason our exports are increasing.\\nLower wages in America than in England, and it\\nshows conclusively that the Hon. James T. Stock-\\nwell did lie when he told us this was the best\\ncountry in the world.\\nTurn back and read that editorial of the Boston\\nHerald over again. American boys working in\\nthe cotton mills at New Bedford, Mass., at $2.10\\na week. The spinner getting $9.27 per week and\\npay the piecer. Less money, says the Boston\\nHerald, than they pay the mill hands in England.\\nFor what purpose do you suppose God created\\nthat boy who is working in that mill for $2.10 per\\nweek? That boy should be out playing in the\\nfree air that God made for him, and hell is good\\nenough for the man who would have such condi-\\ntions in this country in order to compete for the\\nmarkets of the world.\\nEVERY DOLLAR S WORTH OF TRADE FROM\\nTHE PHILIPPINES WILL COST TEN.\\nA great deal has been said in free trade papers\\nabout our exports of American machinery, and it\\nis true we are exporting American machinery.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "136 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nNot long ago a Pennsylvania firm shipped a lot of\\nwoolen mill machinery to China, and what will be\\nthe result of it? Exactly this We shall receive\\nmillions of dollars worth of woolen goods into\\nthis country made by the cheapest labor in the\\nworld to compete with the boy working in our\\nAmerican mills at $2.10 per week and the boy\\nwill have to work for less money.\\nThomas B. Reed said, in regard to the Philip-\\npines as a market for American manufactures, that\\nEvery dollar s worth of trade that we could ever\\nhope to get from those islands will cost us ten.\\nThomas B. Reed, I think, is the brainiest man\\nin this country to-day. Not only will it cost us\\nmore money than it comes to, but it will carry our\\nworking people down with the tide until they are\\non the same plane with those Filipinos.\\nEvery dollar s worth of imported manufactured\\ngoods forces out some man from our mills, and he\\nmust seek the fields in order to live. Every man\\nwho starts the plow adds to the surplus of farm\\nproducts, and these farm products are cheapened.\\nEvery time the farm products are cheapened the\\nconsumption of manufactured goods is lessened.\\nEvery time the consumption is lessened the wages\\nof every man who toils is lowered, and every time\\nthe wages of the working man is lowered, he will\\nhave less to eat and less to wear. Whenever you\\ngive a man less to eat and less to wear, you take\\naway from him just that per cent, of his manhood.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 1 37\\nA man well fed and well clothed is a hundred\\ntimes better mentally, physically, and morally than\\nthe man poorly fed and poorly clothed. I believe\\nin bringing the standard of the American people\\nup, in preference to any other people on the earth.\\nForeign countries buy from us what they need,\\nnothing more. When you force our farmers to\\nraise corn, wheat, and cotton at prices that do not\\npay them a respectable living through fear of\\na Chinese wall, you defeat the object for which\\nthis country was proclaimed.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIIL\\nIT is now March i, 1900, and let us thank God\\nwe are living. McKinley and Bryan is the\\nbattle cry. The date of the Conventions have\\nbeen fixed. Bryan is to be nominated at Kansas\\nCity, July 4. The great mass of working people\\nin this country will rally around him, and listen to\\nthe sweet words that fall from his lips. He will\\ntell them of the great crime of 1873, and that he\\nintends when he gets the keys to the great vault to\\nopen it wide and pour forth to them the shining\\nwhite metal on a ratio of sixteen to one, free as\\nthe air, so that every poor man will be able to pay\\nhis debts, and buy himself a beautiful home, where\\nhe can sit himself down in the sunshine with noth-\\ning to do but gaze upon the magnificent works\\nof nature forever and forever. McKinley and\\nHanna will don their spring suits, trimmed with\\ngold lace, waving the Cuban flag, and crying out\\nin a loud voice to their disciples: Come unto\\nme, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I\\nwill give you rest. They will gather unto him\\nand listen to the golden words as they glisten and\\nsparkle in the midday sun. They will tell about", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 1 39\\nthe great wave of prosperity that has swept over\\nthe land They will tell about the advance in\\nwages. They will tell about the higher prices for\\nwheat, corn, and cotton. They will tell about ex-\\nports of manufactured goods. They will tell about\\nthe glorious flag floating proudly in two hemis-\\npheres. They will sing you the song about Lib-\\nerty, Fraternity, and Equality, and they will ask\\nyou to vote the Republican ticket.\\nThe United States industrial commission have\\nbeen investigating the condition of the laboring\\nand producing classes for the past six months, and\\nwill soon submit the report to Congress. This\\nreport will prove for the benefit of the Republican\\nparty in the coming election that the farmers,\\nlaborers, and mechanics in all industries are thriv-\\ning as never before increasing their luxuries and\\ntheir bank accounts and getting a bigger share of\\na larger product than ever before in this country.\\nLet us look over the country and see how the real\\nfacts will compare with that report.\\nHere is a despatch to the Bosto7i Herald from\\nChicago, dated March 6, 1900, and is headed,\\nFifty Thousand Idle. It says:\\nBuilding material firms which supply the Chi-\\ncago market voted to-day to close their plants\\nuntil conditions in the building industry here\\nchanged for the better. By closing, 10,000 men\\nemployed in stone quarries, brickyards, and plants\\nwhere lime, cement, and other materials are", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "I40 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS,\\nhandled, are made idle. This makes the total\\nnumber of unemployed men in this city 50,000.\\nWHAT HUNGER AND COLD WILL DO.\\nHere is another under date of March 9th:\\nNicholas J. Canfield, eighteen years old, was\\narrested last night for setting fire, yesterday after-\\nnoon, to one of the Boston Maine hay sheds at\\nCharlestown. He made a full confession to Fire\\nMarshall Whitcomb, and said his reason for setting\\nthe fire was because he was sick and tired of\\nlooking for work, and thought he might get a job\\nloading the damaged hay on to wagons. He has\\nbeen hanging around the railroad yards for the\\npast year, living from hand to mouth and sleeping\\nabout the freight sheds.\\nThere are thousands of youths in this land of\\nliberty to-day who are tired and sick of looking\\nfor work, and who are driven to commit crime by\\nhunger and cold. Millions of money for the poor\\nCubans but not a dollar for the poor, half-starved,\\nhalf-clothed American boy. Put this boy Canfield in\\nprison, and if you have any money to spare send\\nit to the negroes in the South, or to the poor\\nCubans. Don t do any thing for the boys at home.\\nThe following is from Lowell, Mass., under date\\nof March 27, 1900:\\nAbout 150 weavers of the Faulkner s Mill of", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. I4I\\nthe American Woolen Company are out on strike,\\non account of the refusal to grant them the scale\\nof wages they demanded. The company offers\\nadvantages under a premium list which would give\\n$1.60 a month for each weaver who could earn\\n$32.00; but the weavers say it is impossible to\\nearn more than $28.00 per month under present\\nconditions.\\nI notice in the Protectionist for February, 1900,\\nthat the wages of cotton and woolen operatives\\nwas increased in April, 1899, ten per cent., and\\nagain in December ten per cent. If that be true,\\nthe weavers were only receiving $22.40 per month\\nprior to April, 1899, and yet this same Protectionist\\nand the Republican campaign orator will tell you\\nthe working people of this country are thriving as\\nnever before. A man earning only $28.00 per\\nmonth with a family to support will never have a\\nhome. Surely things ought to be changed. I\\nwould not be surprised if the Republicans had the\\nunmitigated gall to insert in their platform at the\\nnext National Convention a plank favoring a pro-\\ntective tariff, to protect the poor laboring men\\nagainst the pauper labor of other countries. It is\\nwonderful the amount of cheek they have\\nThe Hawaiian revolution was brought about by\\nAmericans in Hawaii who were interested in\\nmaking sugar; and from that day to the present\\nthese same Americans have constituted an oli-\\ngarchy, and the mass of the people have had no", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "142 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nshare whatever in the political control. Labor on\\nthe sugar plantations are nearly all Japanese and\\nChinese coolies, who are brought there under con-\\ntract, and who are really slaves of the planters.\\nThe plantations there are fast coming into the\\nhands of the American millionaires. It is said\\nMr. Spreckles will produce on his Hawaiian plan-\\ntation this year 50,000 tons of sugar. If our\\nAmerican millionaires will use slave labor in\\nHawaii, they will use it here if you give them a\\nchance; and you do give them a chance. You\\ncurse them and the trusts, but you send them to\\nCongress and the Senate to make laws for you,\\nand they have very nearly squeezed the life out of\\nyou. I am willing that the savages of the earth\\nlook out for themselves, and not willing to bring\\nthe conditions of our working people any lower\\nfor their sake.\\nWhen we come to sum up the whole situation\\nwe find the working people responsible for all the\\npoverty and hard times. They made every trust,\\nbrought about every reduction of wages, sent every\\nmillionaire to Congress and the Senate that is there\\nto-day; made prisons of the factories and mills,\\nmade every law that is detrimental to their interest,\\nand you can depend upon them to continue in this\\ncourse until they are on a level with the poor of\\nother lands.\\nThere are in nearly every town and city in the\\nUnited States Chinese laundries run by Chinamen.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 1 43\\nThey live and thrive just because you patronize\\nthem instead of giving the work to some good old\\nIrish or German women, who will spend the money\\nright in your town. The Chinaman will send the\\nmoney back to China, and buy from his own coun-\\ntry his clothing and shoes, and live on rice which\\nyou allow shipped in free of duty. You are a\\nsmart set, you working people. Yes, you are.\\nThe Republicans are going to tell you about the\\nadvance in the price of cotton and corn, and I want\\nto tell you what a colored editor in Athens, Ga.,\\nsays in regard to the emigration fever that has\\ntaken hold of the colored people there\\nMany have gone already to the far South\\n[Florida], and to the Southwest [Texas], being\\nthe favorite goal. Many more are preparing to go,\\nand many are waiting in the city for transportation.\\nThe most of these people are farmers. The reason\\nwhy they remove is a plain and intelligible one.\\nThey made scarcely anything last year, and they\\nfind themselves at the beginning of this penniless\\nand with few whites willing to advance to them the\\nmeans of living and of making a new crop.\\nWe know cotton has advanced, because the crop\\nwas short. Supply and demand make the price.\\nWith the price of cotton at seven cents the South\\ndid not receive the amount of money they received\\nin 1898, with the price at four and one-half cents\\nper pound. The same can be said of the corn\\ncrop. Yet the Republicans will quote prices to you.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "144 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nI advocate the election of Mr. Bryan in pref-\\nerence to President McKinley. You all know what\\nto expect from a Democratic administration. You\\nknow what you got from the second administration\\nof Cleveland, when the Democrats got control of\\nthe House and Senate that was about the hardest\\ntimes you working people ever saw. You would\\nhave got the same dose under his first administra-\\ntion, if the Democrats had had control of the\\nHouse and Senate so to have changed the tariff\\nlaw. You got it good and hard when they did get\\na clip at you in 1892. If Bryan is elected, you\\nwill get it again but it will be preferable to what\\nis being hatched out for you by McKinley and\\nHanna. If Bryan is elected, you can kick him out\\nat the end of four years, and it may be possible\\nthat you can through him cede back Hawaii to\\nthe Hawaiians, and prevent Puerto Rico, Cuba, and\\nthe Philippines from becoming a millstone about\\nyour neck.\\nIf the Republicans are successful, Cuba will also\\nbe annexed. You can see it cropping out in the\\nRepublican press all along the line. Think well\\nwhat this means for you and your children before\\nyou cast your vote for Wm. McKinley. If we\\ncannot prevent the annexation of Cuba, Puerto\\nRico, and the Philippines, except by the election\\nof Wm. J. Bryan, I am willing to grease his head\\nand swallow him down. If you are satisfied with\\nthe conditions, vote for McKinley by all means.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS. 145\\nBut when you sell your crop, and have only about\\nenough to pay your rent and look at your little\\nfamily who have worked so hard in the hot sun\\nthrough the summer, and toiled through the fall\\nand winter half-clothed, do not sit down and\\nmourn, but tell the boys honestly, I helped bring\\nthese conditions about, and am proud of it. Tell\\nthem that you love them, but you love the poor\\nCubans and Filipinos better. Tell them that you\\ncannot afford to send them to school this winter,\\nfor we must educate the poor savages in those\\ncountries, and you must pay the taxes so it can be\\ndone.\\nYou who toil in the mills and factories and in\\nthe mines you who work in stores and warehouses\\nyou who toil by the day, call your little family\\naround you at night, after they have eaten their\\nlittle supper of corn meal mush, and say to them\\nthat you are sorry they are so poorly clad. Tell\\nyour wife you are sorry she has to work so hard,\\nand have so Httle. Tell her about the poor Cuban\\nand Filipino with his mauser. Tell her you wish\\nyou had money to spare so she could have better\\nclothes and more to eat; but tell her it is your\\nduty to help pay for the education of those\\nsavages, even at the sacrifice of your own family.\\nTell your boys you believe in bringing all the\\nlow and degraded to this country from every land,\\neven if it does lower your wages, and they have to\\nquit school and work in the mill at $2.10 a week.", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "146 POLITICAL THUNDERBOLTS.\\nTell them you believe in giving every man from\\nforeign countries the right to vote in six months\\nafter he lands, whether he can read and write or not\\nbut you do not want them to vote until they reach\\nthe age of twenty-one years. Do this, and when\\nyou come to die and look upon your little family\\ngroup for the last time, knowing it will take the\\nlast dollar they have on earth to put you under\\nthe sod, tell them with your last breath to help the\\npoor Cubans and Filipinos, and trust to chance for\\nwhat they get in the future.", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3267", "width": "2015", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "C i\\nJ^- -N.^ V\\nJ^-\\n^-c\\nV\\n,_\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\nar\\nSk T\\n^5\\n?3^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0_\\nX^ 1\\nJ\u00c2\u00ab J5!\\n3Sk f\\no\\n3:b\\n^Z\\n3\\nxa\\n:i|\\nJs\\n-3\\n:3m M\\nMm\\n5 i\\n3\u00c2\u00bb O y^\\n^:pri\\n5 4^\\nJ0\\nJ^^\\n1\\nK\\n1\\n!S3HD\\n5^\\nJ :g\\nV j|Q|f--r\\nZXIfc\\nJ^\\n^^^Jl*!?^\\n3^\\n1\\n_!]|Mg\\nx\\n3: yi\\n^^^J^\\ns*\\no\\n.3ie\\ni^: o", "height": "3251", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "politicalthunder00hoba_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "^^J kJB .J\u00c2\u00bb.^_=^\\n^?r\\nJBp\\na:-..^ i\\n53\\n-jTUI\\ni-.^^^\\nT3i\\n5\\n^^5^\\n^^^iX^\\n%y^\\n-^^^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0,J^^\\n.^s?* s.\\nT!!i^ ^^^i^\\nZ)\\nS^^\\n3 ~HfS^\\n3i^ Sofir^\\n1\\nz\\n^3q qa\u00c2\u00bb\\nr3^- -\\\\y23i^\\nD\\n~2^^ lif^ V^Hl^\\n3\\n^^^i T\\n5^\\n^3^ _I3I^ ^^J^\\n3\\n5 jC\\ni S\\n]I\\n^K\u00c2\u00bb. 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