The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-04-26

and the ravages of time; and that it II
always best to do right. We should
make our laws SO as to conform to the
laws Of nature.
It is important that we understand
cause and effect. For instance: this
labor-reform movement is the result OF
some cause.
The uprising Of the people in this
country, and in every civilized country
in the world, is result, not OF whim
OF few individuals, but is the outcrop-
pings Of tendency in accordance with
some natural law.
It is the first whisperings of human
nature, to all thinking men, that some
thing is wrorg.
It is on indication that q universal
rebellion is about to make itself felt-a
rebellion against injustice and robbery,
that no power can stop or stay.
Men and women are beginning to ask,
YES. demand the abolition of all those
laws Of brutal manifestation upon which
rest the classification OF society into
higher and lower grades.
This worldwide feeling OF discomfort
plainly shows us that there is q possible
better condition for us and for those
who are to follow us.
1t is the first dawning of better
dav when mammonism and greed shall
give place to brotherly considerations
and fraternal feelings.
But perhaps some doubling Thomas
may say: these things can never be
in this world; your ideas are Utopian
and impossible of realization. We had
| better be contented with our lot than to
chafe under the dispensations OF Provi-
dence.'
Humbug o ye Of little faith-get
We gone! Go and hide in the dark
caverns Of superstition and stupidity,
and as soon as convenient, die, and be
done with you; your game is played,
we know the trick; good-by and good
riddance.
Whatever is good for man in this
world can he realized in this world. BY
and for this died all the martyrs of the
past.
To say that there always were rich
and poor, strong and weak, good and
bad. that the Just have ever suffered
from the sins of the unjust, that it is so,
that it always was SO, and that it always
will be SO, is to tell an apparent truth,
but in reality great falsehood, for 1t
never was Just as it is. The law Of
opposites continues, indeed, but con-
ditions change.
And as ever since the first dawn Of
history mankind has been progressing
toward something better rs regards
the material things Of life, and has
passed through gradual development
of the thinking faculties within him,
wc argue that while this tendency con-
tinues he must grow whether he wills il
or not
But saws another: "What shall we
do to bring about for ourselves the
good time coming?"
I answer: BE honest to your own
convictions of right, and fall in with
the current of natures tendencies
rather than float with the popular
preiudices of past civilization.
Maintain an unfaltering trust in the
beautiful necessity which is in ant
around us, whether your dim eyes car
discern the infinite beauty and tht
! eternal order of things or otherwise.
The destiny of man is not Dependent
/ | upon you OF upon IHe, Just DiS ticiS
: and look, if you please; the world vii
) continue to revolve; you can't stop it.
| les, the good time coming is near
| AMI not only that but the good. man i
t the coming man. The rascals have has
4 their day.
We have the higher law on our side.
Z Justice is the cornerstone OF tn
! coming-the now-existing Nationa
E party.
ANY one can see that the tendency i
/ in the direction Of the elevation OF Ia
o Dor. which means greater opportunitie
I for the working men and women to cul
. tivate and develop the social, the in
i tellectual, the moral and the spiritua
faculties which distinguish men frol
J brutes. The literature of the world
8 ours. Philosophy from Socrates I
Emerson is with us and for us. Th
! rich and the arstocratic hold tn
) wealth, to be sure; but the people hay
y the source of all wealth-Labor.
! The few command the river. but til
e many possess the springs that feed an
/. make the river.