The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-07-09
Master and Servant.
lCONCLUDED.

CONCLUDED.
From lecture recently delivered before
the Lyceum Of Chicago, BY Ira Porter, Esq.
The interest of these are ever conflicting.
1t is the business Of the master to get the
largest possible amount of work for the
smallest possible amount of pay. Of the
servant to get the most pay for the least
work. The pecuniary temptation is to
make the master sxacting and ungener-
Gus the servant inefficient and unfaithful.
The machinery is awkward and misplaced,
and the machine does not do good work.
The master and servant are in hostile,
not an harmonious attitude towards each
other. In their case, self-interest does not
lead to self-improvement. Production il
obstructed, not facilitated. Distrust and
dislike flourish in rank luxuriance, where
confidence and love only should abound.
In the future, far off or near at hand,
as humanity shall prove conservative OF
radical, old fogy or progressive, 9 the good
time coming SO long promised, and by
hopeful men Of faith so earnestly prayed
and struggled for, aCiN surely come.
There intelligence and virtue shall be 90
far universal, that there shall be no more
occasion for man to say to bis neigbbor,
know ye the Lord for all shall know
Him, from the least unto the greatest p
That will be an era Of universal develope
meut. Where then will be the morally
and intellectually deformed and dwarfed
specimens Of humanity now SO abundant |?
Where will be the ignorant, now perish
ing for lack Of knowledge? The vicious
who seek their own happiness. regardless
of others The criminals who have to be
held in check by the armed force of con
stables, sheriffs, and policemen Where
the gallows, the .jails, the pillory, the whip
ping post Where the Judges, tbs
lawyers, the priests, and the hangman :
Where the servant begging a master
Where the famisbed, eager, anxious labor
ers ? the frail sewing women, and the
ragged hodcarriers, who now tremblingly
plead for employment and wages to keep
them from starvation These are seen no
more. They are all gone with the past.
Those special agencies Of God, now known
as clergymen, priests, preachers, ministers,
who now study religion for the multitude.
as profession, stand up in the pulpit and
talk down at the pews, whose special
province and appointment is, to say to the
ignorant multitude, know ye the Lord in
that day where are they All gone No
longer needed. There has been q mighty
levelling upward. If the master has not
come down, the servant has gone up
Then every soul attends to its own devel-
opement, not by proxy. but in person.
Each has learned better than to pay aDoth-
er for adjusting the relationship between
God and his soul That work each will
then do for himself, the only way Of doing it
rightly. In that good time, the teachers
and the taught, stand upon the same level
They have all become equal. They all
know the Lord know Him by His laws
by the principles with which lie controls
and governs the smallest mote that floats
in the sunbeams, and " the rspt scraph that
adores and burns"
Let it be noted, that the good time
coming" will be remarkable for the essential
equality of the people. We have now,
great, but rapidly diminishing distinctions !;
kings and subjects, m"sters and slaves,
| lenders who take and borrowers who girs
usury, landlords and tenants, husbands to
command and wives to obey a male sex
to govern and a female sex to be gov
erned officers to bribe and rich specula-
| tors and n 1nopolists to bribe them cul-
prlt judges to pronounce sentence upon
culprit prisoners ; hangmen, jailers, and
policemen to execute their sentence regu-
latOrs who need regulation. We have mur-
derers to be murdered. We have per-
Jurors in the criminal box to be convicted
by other perjurOrs in the witness stand.
Thieves and robbers to be sent to, and
kept in prisons and jails, by the agency
and for the protection If larger ones, who
rob and steal their thousands, where the
culprits arraigned, steal dollars But
above all, we have now that vicions reIa-
ton known as master and servant. Be
fore the good time comes, that relation in
its present form must end.
Wise men will be elf-governing and
selfenploying. Good men and women
will be selfsustaining. Those that can be
50, and are not, should not be called good.
In the good time coming, they will not be
50 called. The religion Of the world will
then be for the benefit Of the world, and
not for the exaltation Of its professional
teachers only. Then all men and women
will have bodily exercise, for the two fold
purpose of securing bodily health and sup
plying bodily wants. Then all vagrancy,
whether it be the vagrancy of the learned
profession, which now fattens upon the dis
eases Of society,or the vagrancy of pimPs and
prostitutes, will he unknown. There will
then be no worship TO Lc paid for, no
brothels to be pulled, 10 ignorant poor to
bcSdegraded, 10 cultivated hypocrites to
be exalted Then all knowing the Lord,
will be selfsustaining, selfemPloying, self
governing, so thoroughly h.b.tlatel to IN
derstand and to perform biz q her Part If