"The jury in the federal court awarded the Hailey-Okla. Coal Co. $30,507 damages against the Globe Oil Co. for losses occasioned in the explosion in the Haileyville, Okla., mine in 1908. The verdict places the damages for 29 men dead and 10 wounded at $500 each; for mules at $150 each."
This discloses what you would probably bring on the auction block. If you are young and strong you are worth $500; mules $150.
It will be noted that there is no discrimination in allowing settlement between the 29 that were killed and the 10 that were wounded.
The wounded probably had a leg or arm torn off or their eyes put out.
They were just as useless to the capitalist class as the dead ones.
The federal court figured them all alike in the damage suit.
Some of you white victims of the capitalist system, who vote a capitalist ticket because you are afraid of "nigger equality," ought to sit up and take notice.
Your "equality" has petered out away below the "nigger" of the old chattel slave days.
He used to be worth from a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars, with board and clothes thrown in.
You have slumped the market down to a measly $500, without any board and clothes, and have to get killed to collect, at that.
You had better cross yourselves with a jack and be mules.
Mules keep along about the same old price and get their fodder to boot.
Anyway, you know now where you stand. The difference between a workingman and a mule is $350; when
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