The Labor enquirer., 1883-11-03

MlCuol buu tHeIo WA1 aukl Lu1uu. DC
yond the central stand uproee the dele
aates from America, Coleman from
Mexico, Mcclure from New York, Tram
mell from Georgia, from Colo
rado and brave old Starkweather from
our own shores. There was Glasse from
Africa, Blayatsky from India NJ !
| from Spain, the brother of Oberdanl
from Austria, and Vera Sassuliteh es
capped from her dungeon representative
| of Russia. These and hundred more
were the delegates to the General Con.
| gress which was then in session
i How their mighty voices pealed forth
upon the soft, sweet air With an elo.
quence mocking that of Savonarola, the
voices sweep forth in persuasive music
| rivalling Aristides they implored, and
moved and appealed; surprising the in
| vective of Cicero or Cataline they poured
} upon the heads of the tyrant robbers OF
the world their prophecies of coming
i DOOM
i In silver voice the leader Hyndman,
speaks: "Oh, people of England! For
kings and beggars, for the justly doomed
and unjustly,-it is a hard thing to die.
For beggars is it not as hard as for kings?
Aye, for the beggar unjustly doomed,
pale with the fear of the ghostly kings
above, weakened by hunger, palsied with
cold, shelterless in the streets lined with
i mansions which his hands have built,
is it not, ! ask you, oh, people, hard for
him to die And shall he be shot down,
shall his blood longer smoke in our
streets and stain the factories where he
tolls, slave, for ever? Shall he be mur-
dered and we stand eternally mute? MOI
Now in the days that are upon us, let us
rebuke this wrong and throttle for ever
and forever the serpent that crushes the,
world within its coils p'
Then one great cry goes up from the
inmost hearts of the people, and there
are burning eyes, flushed faces, and
white lips, and clenched hands uprising
from all the maddened throng.
But hist! Along the city's streets
comes the muffied sounds of advancing
feet, along the paved thoroughfares the
distant rumble of approaching canon.
Nearer they come. The avenues are
bright with the gleam and glitter Of
bayonets, the splashes of scarlet here and
there point out the officers, the dark
lines around them are the troops. Clear
peals out the challenge of the bugle. |
Then is heard the muttered proclamation
of the magistrates then the sharp COM
mand of the officers and-ah-the deed
of hell is done!
Forth from the ranks of the brutal
soldiery comes the binding flash, the
sheets of rife smoke, the roll of mus
kerry. And the cannon open fire and
the dead fall by thousands and heap up
barricade of corpses, behind which
rally the people not one of whom has
fed. And the splashes of scarlet are
everywhere but now they are the blood
of human beings instead of the coats of
officers. Eg ..'
For three days ragged the contest and
when the sun rose upon the fourth, it
rose upon people, decimated but free
The Great Idea had triumphed and
Liberty and Justice were enthroned for
ever! .r a..
No need for me here to sketch with
hasty pen how the great revolution spread
from country to country, from continent
to continent until all earth was free and
every land could write upon its portals:
"Here rights are equal and all men are
brothers" No need for me to speak of
the great worlds congress where systems
were made and principles promulgated,
where the work of the world was CLASH
fed and the duty of each land assigned.
No need for me to speak of how easily
the mighty changes were made and how
within one year thereafter even our enc
mise wrung our hands in gratitude for
the work we had done so well.
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am sitting in my chair reading the
journal spoken of and in it, in this year
of grace 1900, five years since all war has
ceased forever, I note these things re-
corded:
Tie Paris Academy of Science reports
q new discovery: --s-.s.. l.
Cabanais the present President of the
Academy of Medicine in his investiga-
lions under government instructions has
made new discovery regarding the ner-
vous system, which upsets in measure
all previous guesses upon the economy of
the physical frame of man. l.
He found that each nerve was encased
in geleatinous substance which had
been commonly supposed to be an inte-
yral part of the nerve. But dissecting
the papillae and removing the casing, it
was ascertained that the nerve sensation
was increased, rather than diminished.
From this fact Cabanias concluded that
this gelationous enyelop (which he calls
yravine) acts as deadener of the nerv-
ous force. He found that the inhabitants
Of Picardy were less sensible to pain than
people in other portions of France, and
dissection showed that the average thick
ness of the grsvine on the pneumogastic
nerve (which he takes as the unit for