The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-23

referring to the condition of the peas
ant, says: Formerly fnanciers were
hard:hearted men. Now they are phi.
lanthropists, kind, amiable, benefcent;
with one hand they starve, it is true,
but often they nourish with. the other.
They reduce thousands to beggary, and
give aims. They build hospitals and fill
them .-ta ~ j..
The same author remarks that tax
gathering was nothing but an original
warfare; it caused an army of ten. hun
dred thousand drones to Cypress the
soil. These locusts deyoured, wasted
everything. To drain substance out of
the people thus devoured, it was neces-
sary to have cruel laws, terrible penal
ties-the galleys, gibbets and racks, The
farming agents were authorized to carry
arms" etc.
They had toiled patiently, hoping
against hope that some day their lot
would be better, the burden lightened
from their shoulders, and they permitted
to eat of the bread which with their own
hands they had sown and harvested But
their lot grew worse and worse.
Hunger is one Of the grand money
forces of the world, and when it is in ex-
cess it does wonders 1t has been truly
said that "the poor, patient French peas>
ants would have gone on paying taxes and
giving tithes until the crack of doom,
never questioning authority or craving
rights, had they been but able TO win
their daily bread. But life became in
supportable. Heaven was eclipsed by
present hell. To the starving multitudes
heaven was not so precious as bread"
Are not the poorer classes Of our own
country being rapidly reduced to the
starvation point-the point below which
existence becomes impossible? That the
same cause will produce the same effect
here goes without the saying.
The capitalist owns the railway, the
telegraph, the mandatory, the newspa-
per, (mostly), the land, the banks, the
church, through which we are daily and
hourly controlled; yet, people imagine
that the power of control is exercised by
the state or nation. while the fact is that,
even in the most, intimate relations of
life, they scarcely touch us at all. King
Money is the controlling power which
forges the letters that bind equally the
merchant, the mechanic and the laborer.
The object seems to be to reduce the mil
lionsto beggary and pauperism in order
that the few may become inOrdinately
rich.
That the small politicians and lawyers
of which senates, legislatures and as
sembIies are principally composed, are as
readily bought as drove of hogs or a
herd Of cattle, is a Well-knoWn fact
are generally under, the con-
troll Of mOneyed men and the corpora
tions so that public opinion becomes "a
mockery, a delusion and a snare" an eff
tective means for perpetuating the mis-
rule and corruption that has been in
ahgurated by the aggregation Of wealth
in the hands of the few. .
ell fares the land. to Fastening ills prey,
Where wealth aCcumulateS and men decay"
Last Nights Telegraph.
A Washington special to the Repub-
lican says, Judge Decker, who narrowly
serious injury in a Pullman car
on the Baltimore & Ohio road, which
was overturned Thursday evening, ar
rived in the capital Friday morning.
He is here to secure if possible, Secre-
tary Folgers approval Of the commits
SiOner's report locating the public build
ing at Denver on the Tabor property
Senator Chilcott refuses to take any part
in the controversy. Senator Hill SAYS
that in justice to all concerned he must
remain neutral having fulfilled the
measure Of his duty by securing the
passage of the bill providing for the
erection Of the building.
The employees of the National Tube