lOrt FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



the goods, wliatever they may he, complies with 

 a demand lie kno^Ys must he his ruin, and which 

 cannot in its extortion continue, why, then he 

 pays his money to men who stand in the position 

 of mean and worthless robbers. 



It is high time that Peers and Commoners, 

 and all grades of employers, should meet this 

 mischief by a league, — a league not to take from 

 the j^opulation anything, not to extort from them 

 anything, not to force them to accept less wages 

 for their industry tlian they deserve ; but to point 

 out to them that there are two ways of obtaining 

 things in this world, other than by ^^strikes" 

 and robbery; and that they could quit their 

 employer's service at times that would be just 

 to him as well as to themselves, if they could 

 l)ottor themselves 1)y it, and then not put it in 

 the power of any peoples, at home or in foreign 

 countries, to refer to, and liken them to, a nest 

 of predatory villains. 



No man has spoken more clearly or correctly 

 on this head than the Duke of Buckingham ; and 

 no set of designing, selfish men have over deluded 

 their poor dupes more than the clique of stump- 

 orators who have been permitted to make the 



