The examiner., 1881-11-26
SALUTATORY.

SALUTATORY.
 To the honest, industrious and inde- pendent-minded people of our good old commonwealth in particular, and our country ill general, we hereby make our humble bow, and salute you one and all in the name of Justice, Liberty, Truth and Fraternity.
 We come to you, friends, not as one en- gagged in business venture, to say and do what is best calculated to please and satisfy |" the minimizing multitude" and "pun the strings that pay best,' but we come as an auxiliary and medium where
 by yoatr best thoughts and words, as we'll as ours, may go forth to enlighten the minds and quicken the hearts of all who desire to walk in the pathway of right eousness, and secure for themselves and posterity a government which shall be ia, reality ss 9 government of the people, by the people. and for the people.
 For long, dark and dreary centuries, oppression has ruled the earth, and op- pression rules the earth to-day.
 Those who create the wealth of the world are the very slaves of those who control the land and other means of pro- ductive wealth. Those who make it DOS sible for man to exist at all, who make the earth glad by their labor, are clothed in the meanest garb, fed on the poorest diet, and housed in the basest buildings. Chat tel slavery is abolished in the republic, yet series of systems for the utter en- slavement of GU LdbOr has been instituted instead; and gigantic corporations in ac- cordance with, or in violation of, law, are stretching out their monster claws, and are gathering to themselves the entire surplus product of the peoples labor.
 We are in tho hands and completely at the mercy of "rings" and " "cliques'' of interruptions and avaricious schemers in fact the whole machinery of government seems designed for no other purpose than that of systematic plundering of the producers, consigning many of them for ever to a life of hopeless drudgery. com pelled to huddle together in presidential tenement rookeries, away from Gods air and sunlight, victims of disease and death; that comparative few may revel in lux ury, abide in palaces, roll in gilded car riages, with liveried lackies in attendance, become millionaires, travel in Europe or purchase legislation or position in the councils of the nation.
 The great and learned St. Paul laid down as fundamental doctrine of Chris tianity the axiom, He that will not work, neither shall he eat ;'' yet our much vaunted civilization, our Christian civili- zation of to-day, though protesting to be- ieve in the divinity of his teachings, has
 
 tically commands instead "He that worketh and bringeth forth all good things from the storehouse of the Lord, must use sparingly thereof, so that he who is cast in frmer mold and consequently worketh not, may partake in abundance and whosoever among ye shall deny, or preach other doctrine than this. let him be mathematical and denounced as a dis. tlaelasva f standing the anathemas of the high priests of mammon, the sneers, sarcasm and misrepresentations of a subsidized hypocriticaI press, the downright false hoods of plotting politicians, the 1nborn treachery of traitors, the prejudice and suspicious of the honest but misguided, and the jeers, curses and rotten eggs of the rabble we shall raise our voice and cry out aloud against the blasphemous i; ever preaching the true doc | Urine of labor as taught by Paul and his Master-the true doctrine of dellverance to the betrayed and benighted people, | until the glorious light of regenerating truth is focused on every villainous scheme through which man is enslaved by his fellowman.
 We shall ever be found not only willing but anxious to lend a helping hand to all movements of every class, for the welfare of mankind and we shall strike with all the strength
 
 all combinations and all laws seeking to enslave the people, and retard the progress sive tendencies of the age.
 THE EXAMINER in dealing with all ques- tions of moment to the people, will en- deavor to avoid ambiguity, speaking in the plainest terms. always calling things by their right names, when it does not conflict with the code of morality or good manners and whenever or wherever we shall have to criticise the words or acts of any one, our columns will always be open to those feeling themselves agrieved or misrepresented.
 Therefore, to ALL who sympat esIqwith efforts towards reform in the body social or politic and desire to see the principles involved in our Declaration of lndeden- dence a living truth in the land for which a Jefferson lived, Washington fought, and Lincoln died, we bespeak an active sympathy and earnest support, pledging against right, so long shall we be ever found battleing for righteous principles and the supremacy of just laws.
 Yetif at any time through the apathy or indifference of those for whom we we should be forced to suspen- sion of our Journalistic labors and return to obscurity, we shall do so with the proud of being unattainted with dishonor.
 But we enter the field without such mis- givings of the future. The majority of the people, we believe. are honest; thought we otherwise all hope would vanish, and this labor would never have been begun.
 There is an awakening in the world. The light is at last dawning on the dark ened vision of the long enslaved tollers. The seeds of thought are being sown, and with dlligent effort and judicious care, fail to grow and ripen into fruit full harvest, harvest of intelligence, tTa,e manhood and independence, where men knowing their rights will dare maintain them
 We have done. Let this, while pro- our status, also serve as an ap- peal. We swear to do our duty and we expect you to do yours. Extend to us then the moral and material support es- sential to the guaranteed success of this and let us march forward, shoulder to shoulder, with the watchwords of Liberty Equality and Fraternity on curb anners.
 Liberty--the full freedom of each, only by the full freedom of every other.
 sEquality-the equal right of each to the full enjoyment of all natural opportuni-