The Labor enquirer., 1883-03-17
A RrhKe Woman.

A Brave Woman.
There is a noble movement now on
foot in this city. A number of our great
est and most disinterested men have
fjoined together and resolved, no matter
at what expense of time or money, to
make one great and concentrated effort
for the consolidation Of the widespread
but unorganized feeling against monop-
oily into permanent working. party, for
the relief of the producing public and the
salvation of our free institutions.
1t seems needless to recapitulate the
wrongs that render such a movement
the one essential necessity of the hour.
1t is sufficient to say that the raCe-de-
signed for freedom of unfetteFed effort,
and for the growth, elevation and hap
piness that would attend such effort, is
now wrapped in the anaconda folds of
the most selfish, crushing and damning
system ever organized by the combined
greed of a dominant class until it has
come to this-that every Vesti&e Of pleas
urable emotion, even the stimulus of
hope itself, is fast disappearing from the
people; until men walk the streets with
corrugated brows, obliyious of each 9TH
er's presence, fOrgetful of the social
amenities of life, far from any apprecia-
ton of the inherent goodness Of their fell
lows, far from any consciousness Of their
own high capabilities, bound with triple
chains of unconquerabIe necessity to the
ever recurring question of where the next
dollar is to come from.
The most satanic influence ever
brought to bear in the past times upon
the free will of the people WAS never half
so refined in its cruelty, never SO de8per-
ate in it's intent, nor SO utterly crushing
in its results as the monopoly system of
to-day.
Men and women everywhere feel this
to be SO. The bittere8t the most intense
and the most unanimous sentiment now
animating the entire producing people
of this republic is unfinching and ire
pressibIe opposition to the capitalized
monopoly they feel to be running them
individually and nationally. Men and
women, loaded with impoSitions and in
suits from Haunting and high-handed
monopoli8tic greed, have looked with
apprehensive hearts and brimming eyes
upon their inofersive children growing
up under the condition organized in this
living hell of bonded slavery until pity
has fomented to wrath, and they are
ready to dare all things in the struggle
for freedom.
Everywhere the opposition exists, 1t
not only exists, but 1t burns 30 deeply
that ordinary words of ordinary agitat-
ors seem so commonplace and impotent
in depicting it, that the heart rebels
against the inadequacy Of such attempts,
and prefers to shut itself up alone in its
own bitter resolve. .
To thaw with words of liquid fire the
ice-bound and segregated resolves of the
peopIe-this is what every journal de-
voted to the public interest should now
combine to do, All petty diversions be-
tween the various grades and shades of
progressive thinkers should be melted
down for the sake Of the general good,
and reformers should pull together with
one object in view, namely, to'destroy
the system that creates one millionaire
at the expense of a hundred thousand
paupers.
The spirit of great and noble fusion
is in the air, as it always is in cases of
| life and DEATH All petty strife and small
personal ambitions as to leadership give
way in time of great need; and i'm aspirit
of seIf-abnegation the people lay down
their small jealousies and animosities for
the common good. 1t is then, from such
conditions, that the true and noble
statesmen spring into public existen ce,
who with divinely inspired effort direct
events to that elimination which is to