The Labor enquirer., 1883-11-17
The Base Uses TO Which the
: Ballot Has Been Given
ss.5.I y. 5 Over. 6.
Retrospection Showing How His
8 tory Has Repeated Itself fssii.
sit this Regard.
viii the People Rise and Demand
their Rights, Ere it is
Too Late9 sal sss1fl

the condition of my feelrngs after read
ing the result of the recent election. 1t
was something akin TO both disgust and
sorrow for men and things in the future
before us. Whata sad. what a lamenta-
BILE commentaryon the lives and ilabors
of such patriots as Fergus 0'Conner and
Earnest Jones, Joseph sRayner, Stevens
West, Barker and hundreds of other
lesser lights, who suferedin cold dun
geons every speciesiof crime being laid
to their charge, that a m neyed dig
archy and its brutal minions could bring
tobear against themf for laboring hon
estly and earnestly with all their God
given powers in behalf of enslaved and
suffering humanity. d For upwards OF
half century some of these sterling
humanitqrians counted nosaerifices toe
much to suffer or endure to obtain the
ballot or universal suffrage, and all men
made equal before the law. And here
in this great, free and professed eniight-
ened nation, where all can become SOW
ereign citizenssa and by their will at any
time, can put in place and power any
one or parties, to make and administer
the laws and equal Justice. Oh, what a
farceit is! On one side is to be seen
shrewd cunning, intelligence with:
money to temPt9and destroy moral dig
nifty and manhood, to obtain places and
power, by which they can crush and de-
stroy the rights and liberties of apeople; I;
and how well they have accomplished
their base purposes, through the weak
nesses and Ignorance Of thousands of
poor, besotted, wretched creatures, who
deem the highest acme of this life when
opportunity is offered, is to make few
paltry dollars and get stomach fulFlof
whisky. The world would be vastly bet
ter if such were deprived of those rights
and duties committed to their charge, as
they turn this great boon Of the Magma
Charta of man-into terrible curse. The
innocent are engulfed inthe maelstron
of wrong and have to bear the obloquy
affacontumely hurled at them by the
moneyed power, when appealed to re.
dress any wrongs or grievances they Ia
Dor under.
"They do not know what they want"
is the cry OF the moneyed power, 'and
they must take Just what we choose to
grant them or nothing at all" ~ "'
History repeats itself, and am lead to
think that when the yoke of tyranny is
put on little tighter and the burdens
become harder to bear, then the people
will rise en- masse, and make the tyrants
tremble, as Wat Tyler made the Lom-
bards and Flemings in 1881, in the reign
of Richard II, of England. These money
changers, by their nefaricus greed, op-
pressed the people to frenzy, says the
historian, by their glittering show and
gay equipages and their general luxurious
department.; while the people could not
obtain the most common necessaries of
life. But now comes the sequel in this
great drama of life: They soon adjusted
things, by bringing them TO what they
called the Shibboleth. They dragged
many, whom they caught at their impious
prayers, to the stake and put them to
death hundreds of them; and the rem
nants that wereyleft never lifted their
unworthy heads again; and no real
brokerage or banking business was done
from that date until 1913, and then it was
begun by Mr.. Francis Child, goldsmith
of large fortune who bore an unblem-
ished character for justice and honest
dealing with all men. His name was
untiflately, still perpetuated in Temple
Bar Shall not the selfsame mold pro-
duce the selfsame men?
Moneyed Kings beware; heed the game you
play!
Kings, the People move; you must stand out
Of their way! 81. .a.