The Labor enquirer., 1883-04-14

Man is God, lacking development. !
His authority is supreme, and 50 ac-
knowIedged by the nations of the earth; /
none dare dispute HIM. He commands,
and despots obey he speaks, and their |.
sceptres fall he wills, and their bodies
are. prey to the beasts Of the field and |
fowls of the air. The petition Of su-
perior, for inherent rights, is sovereign |
contempt; is ever 50 treated; and. in
the eternal fitness of things, ought TO
be 80.
See a man on the prairies, a nayy-slX
in one hand and dynamite in the other,
with a serpent coiled about his vjtaIs
anG his legislative fangs injecting poison
at every turn, calling a congress Of the
serpent brood to help him out, Why,
you'd say The fool ought TO die
You have pettioned six thousand
wears. the result of death by starvation
and serpent coil staring you in the fare.
TO yourtents, 0, Israel, say you Nay,
verify but on dagger and dynamite, ye
Sons Of God, lay hold
trod never gave to silence a baptism Of
the Holy Ghost common sense by
which great discoveries are made, until
that discovery is needed and the world
ready for its use, But, says Poppy-head
this revolution to which We are thor
oughly committed, must be d bloodIess
one. Never mind blood you have
little to shed, anyway. The old serpent
has YOU and yours well drained already;
and if he wants to shed his-Amen its
time ne did. Kill the serpent or he
kills you. is borne to us on every breeze.
Kill or be killed is the handwriting Of
DOOM Kill or be killed is the voice Of
nations, that break upon us like the
voice of many waters. He shall bruise
Ithy heel, is past; and thou shalt bruise
his head" is come, and good weight,
pressed down and shaken together" We
give him now,
In labor organizations We have the
march from Egypt to the Red sea be-
fore it's turbid waters We now stand,
asking each other the way over what
we shall 10 to free ourselves from the
sum Of vilIainies called government, TO
escape its heIIish Iabrvnths of .egisa-
tion--the pursuing hosts Of Pharaoh "
"The measure they have meted to you,
measure back to them, is the policy and
: platform Of Almighty God This is
your dry road-bed to the promised and
! of Government and Rest. 80 other
wa, is possible to you On this youshaII
cross dry shod the bIood-coIored sea OF
political misruIe. This road is short,
straight. easv, natural, tiodlv. The laws
Monopoly has executed on US for all
time. now execute on him. Turn about
is fair play equal rights is our motto.
and blesses all. The hell the Old ser
p4nt burned us in, We now beQueath to
hIm. and long before siH thousand years
roll around, this prostitute prodigaI will
/ bthomeward bound, resolved on decent
! life. Then we'll Kill the fatteG calf and
/ give HIM merry welcome.
The first step on this road is to form,
by proclamation, each labor organization
into a vigilance committee, constituting
an omnipresence, to dog the steps Of
capital. as they have labor Call d ma
tionaI council composed Of delegates
from each state and territory. as yOu
deem proper, to nominate and elect on a
given day officers to fill each federal
place. Announce in the most public
manner that you, the People, the >u-
preme Authority Of earth, now take
your world and its executive in hand,
and any word or deed, verbal or writ
ten, to interfere, is Treason, and will be
So treated. Install your elected officers
in your first congress, at once; constI-
tate q Supreme Tribunal, with branches
interspersed throughout the country as
needed. The rank and tile' of ''cOm-
mon sense" will give you the right man
in the right place, and you give sophiS-
try and subtlety d wide berth. Thus
equipped, dispense in earnest the bread
Of life tc perishing millions Of robbed,
cheated, starved, hell-hounded human
ity by confscating the property, and if
need be the lives OF the professional
traitors, state traitors; conhscate the
vessels that brought the Chinese here,
and send them back in the same; open