The examiner., 1882-02-11
Our False System.

Uur False System.
 In this country, everything in the nature of public wrong or oppression, may be laid to our social system. By it the few through certain conditions some not of their own making-are enabled to live in luxury and idleness off the labor of the many. To effect this, i'll many cases op- pressive measures are enacted and relent- lessly enforced Theoretically we are free, making to do our bidding. Our constitu- tion knows nothing of superior and infe- rior, the mastership of one class over an other. The Declaration of Independence was supposed to have settled that forever. And still who is so blind as not to see the evidences of aristocracy on every hand, the evidences of master and slave, of prince and pauper.
 Every railroad, mine, factory, financial and industrial establishment is hotbed for the growth and nourishrnent of aris- .tocracy. There is no equality in rights, conditions, rewards or punishments La Dor is only regarded as an ignorant clown without human instincts, made especially for others use and abuse, the football of anybody and everybody who is in the hu- mor and position to kick it. The poor laborer is humbugged, cheated, buffeted and deceived at every step, until he has become so confused that he is incapable of knowing friend from an enemy.
 And thus it will be until the laborer has made up his mind to have a change, not a change of rulers but a change of system This iniividualistic system whereby the wealth created by thousands finds it's Judgement in the hands of one, is the direct cause of the misery and discontent not only of the wage workers but of three fourths of what is termed the business or trading class of the country to-day. All is unrest, constant continual worrying for the morrow. It cannot be otherwise so long as productive labor, the base, the foundation of our industrial and social existence is jeopardized by the sapping and mining process of the individual cap italistic system and the private oUnersh1p (not possession) of that which the great Creator vouchsafed to all his people alike, the source of all animated life, the Land
 The following from the Hartford Cour- ant is just in that vein calculated to excite the indignation of a whole-sonled patri- otic Irishman. and the contempt, for that matter, of any high-spirited lover of jus tice of any nationality.
 But it is very unsafe to judge the reol sentim ents of the individual penning these lines, from the sentiments expressed in the paper.
 These people are not dead to all patri- sotic impulses and self-sacrificing labors as their writings would indicate. In their inner hearts the majority of them undoubtedly admire the patriotic disin- terestedness of Parnell, Davitt, Dillon and their brave associates, and would shrink from endorsing the methods by which il is hoped their subjugation may be accom- plished, but the explanation is all boiled down in that one word business" They write for their bread and butter,'' and the Courant having it's support princi- pally from class who thrive on the pres ent existing conditions, consequently de sire no change, they provide their patrons with just such literary food as they, the patrons like best, and as rebounds to the mutual advantage of all engaged in the Courant institution. Undoubtedly they put it thus " Others have their minds as well as we have ours, and if they cant use them for their own preservation surely the fault is not ours." There is nc necessity in commenting on the points in the extract, for they are only the same old one that have been blunted thou sand times in the last few years. Here it is:
 ''The benevolent children of Ireland in this country who have contributed so lib erally to the land league funds, after denying themselves under the impression that they are aiding in movement which is to regenerate the green isle, have 8 right to demand that the few men who have the handling of the millions should be honest and render accounts of what they do with the money. MT. Patrick Eagan, with headquarters in Paris, has been one of the treasurers of the fund, having received, it is said, more than half a million dollars, although it is doubtful ii any one but himself knows the total amount he has received. It is now alleged that considerable part of this sum was invested in that egregious swindle, the "Union Generale," which has just col lapsed, bringing ruin to thousands of de luded victims. It is possible that the money thus lost has done as much good tc Ireland as any of the subscriptions, but il
 certainly would have done the patriotic givers more good to have kept it for thei