PHIL KELSEV’S FIREWORKS. 53,

had mounted an old loom in front of one
of the warehouses, and declared that it
was the duty of every workman to put
his heel down very hard upon the cap-
italists.

“The Fourth of July is near at hand,”
he said; “the day of our national inde-
pendence is near. ‘Let us be independ-
ent by sticking to our motto, ‘big wage
or no work” Men, let us stand like rock
and shout: ‘Down with cheap labor, or
down with capitalists.”

The orator and his hearers were not
more concerned about the issues of the
strike than was a party of boys who had
met on the river bank to discuss the
Fourth of July. It had been discovered
that not one of them had a penny in the
world. The few coppers that they had
possessed had been gathered in by their
parents to keep hunger from their doors.