The examiner., 1881-11-19
SALUTATORY.


 commonwealth in particular, and our country in 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 "pull the strings that pay best" but we come as an auxiliary and medium where by your best thoughts and words, as well 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 government which shall be 9" reality "a 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 pos 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 aH labor 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 the 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 8 systematic plundering of the producers, consigning many of them for ever to life of hopeless drudgery, com pelled to huddle together in pestilential tenement rookeries, away from Gods air and sunlight, victims of disease and death; that a comparative few may revel i'll lux ury, abide in palaces, roll in gilded car riages, with liveried lacl1ies 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 a 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- lieve in the divinity of his teachings, has completely reversed his doctrine and prac- 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 firmer 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 dis turber of society, an infidel, socialist, com munist and revolutionist.' Yet notwith 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 inborr treachery of traitors, the prejudice ane suspicious of the honest but misguided and the ieers, curses and rotten eggs oi the rabble we shall raise our voice ant cry out aloud against the blasphemou' perversion; ever preaching the true doc urine of labor as taught by Paul and his Master-the true doctrine of deliverance to the betrayed and benighted people until the glorious light of regeneratine truth is focused on every villainous scheme through which man is enslaved by hi fellowman.
 We shall ever be found not only willing but anxious to lend a helping hand to al reformatory movements of every class struggling for the welfare of mankind and we shall strike with all the strengtl and talents that God has given us agains all combinations and all laws seeking t enslave the people, and retard the progres sive tendencies of the age.
 THE EXAMINER in dealing with all queS tions of moment to the people, will CT deavor to avoid ambiguity, speaking l the plainest terms. always calling thing by their right names, when it does nc conflict with the code of morality or goo
 manners and whenever or wherever W shall have to criticise the words or act