The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-11

oftener by certain species of selfish cunning, are
the first to cry out against giving the poor man
few hours breathing time in his wearisome life.
Why is it that the der, because he has capital can
say to the toilworn many" Do thus and so'-and it
must be done? Gods earth and air were made for
all; and if one man by his acquisitiveness accumu-
lates wealth, why must he be allowed to lash the
thousands into the grave?
GU, madam, lolling on your rich divan, your
heart rusting with eooaaati who cry aloud because
your servant won't be your slave, what have you
done, what you doing, that you should frown
when your servant insists that she too is woman?
The robes you wear, the diamonds that glitter on
your voluptuous neck, have caused whole house
holds misery, and left families shivering with cold
and hunger, that you might riot in luxury
"The gold you strew on foys shrine,
Might feed the hungry poor"
And you, sir tyrant, king or capitalist-what
better are you than the slave-driver you were SO
fippant in condemning? You worth your mil
lions and own your community. You buy and sell
illegally it may be-the slaves whom misfortune
has placed within your grasp. You pinch the
chi dren's cheek with want. You break the moth
ers heart with grief: You kil--aye, kil--the faith
ers with ill-paid labor and make the daughters
soorse than dead. You lash them all with a scor-
pon scourge more mercess than the slave-driver's
whip, and that is misery. And then you cry out in
holy hellishness, "protect capital'--aye, and men
must receive protection. Mammon is god that
has no respect for human blood, or bone, or tears
Souls weigh nothing in the scale with gold
Were it necessary, we should hesitate no more in
counselling revolution against capital used for en-
shaving men, than we would the upsetting of the
hugest despotsm that curses Europe. Thank
Heaven, liberty is not yet reduced to a shadow
here, and labor is still the key stone of the arch.
Let there be violence, but let there be " no sur
render on the part of labor AS surely as that
four hundred thousand freemen signed the proca-
nation of emancipation with their blood, surely
will the good work go on, until labor shall become
pleasure and profit, and the poor mans life will
be no more burden, but that he will enjoy part
Of Gods sunshine, well as those who, by chance
merit, have become the masters of their kind.
The richest men in the land--men who cry out that
capital rules the world-should remember that la
Dor is the Atlas who carries the world on his shout
ders and that should he rise erect and stiffen out
his brawny thews, he would scatter the globe of
their greatness to pieces.
Let the grand army, then, of labor march for
ward, clothed with right and armed with the BAL
LOT. The majority rules Labor is that majority.
Why don't labor rule Because labor is not unit
ed A capitalist worth million is equal to
thousand united laborers and able to enslave
community who are disunited. Unite then, men
of all nations. We belong to great family.
Forward, then, shouting FREEDOM AND LABOR,
the one the cornerstone of the temple, the other
the capital of the column. Two thousand years
ago it was said The aboreris worthy of his hire"
and it is now full time to make &C the hire worthy of
the laborer'