The Labor enquirer., 1883-04-21


perform the functions of maternity or
d child with sufficient to avoid fatal
turn at twelve years The worlds march
is grand funeral pageant, IT'D face PaH,
its heart a sepulchre of bnfied hopes.
The wells, etc, are the banks and smaller
repositoriessof money. When this sub
iect is touched the wrath ofFvictimized
millions is famed to fame, Fetribution
writes her vow high on political skies
and the bones of dead patriotism
Wrangle in thelr tomb. .,.. ..
SECOND PLAGUE.
The second plague is frogs. Frogs, the
type of loathing, come out of the river,
cover the earth, crawl to the tables, beds
and dough-troughs of the king. This
frog plague is Ioathsome acts of financial
-legislatte8, and during rebellion covered
the land and deprecated currency to
one-third value, and inflated prices
treblv. Every table, bed and dOug gh-
trough of king and people ldathed the
frogs they met in prices, and the Cla1pOr
for cleansing was 80 great the land had
to be cleared in parts. but the vile pro-
geny still adhere to the river. The bond
bull frog crowned the plague.
THIRD PLAGUE WAS LICE .
Moses smote the dust, and lice COW
cred man and beast. This dust is the
crude material of which man is made,
and in oppression is not refined by civil
zation, but is savage, as at first made
Our rulers are Earthly, sensual, devil
ish :" you struck them by labor strikes,
and the Chinese came. That Ito our pO-
Il i -l,,+ To
physical. They live by extracting its
vitality; create irritation, degradation,
dirt and death they crawl eternally the
same round, desire no elevation, social
on political are absolutely satisfied with
Iousehood, the lowest grade of animal
life, and are as widely separated in sym
pathv and fellowship from the body
they prey upon. as a louise is from man.
They and you alike are victims of Op-
preston; but you will soon COnfscate
the ships that brought them to carry
them home again. Pharaoh deceitfully
asked the removal of this plague in the
anti-Chinese bill.
FOURTH PLAGUE-FLIEE
See, you are rising. You strike harder
as you organize, and the plague eleVates
to- meet you. Flies are the pauper
population now being sCraped from the
earth and brought in ship load sWarns
| to cover your industries and drive you
from them. These flies came to their
plane of life by starvation and are
/ brought to reduce YOU to the same. The
flies have wings aspirations for eIeva-
tiOn. In this plague God putt a differ
ence between you and Pharaoh Won
had learned from the lice what the flies
meant, and now with royal wisdom you
are gathering them into labor lodges,
tangIing PharaOh's chariot wheels, and
making your separation from him conn
plete.
FIFTH PLAGUE-MURRAIN.
Diseased blOod-P0pular discontent is
blood poison, and at present pervadRs
the entire man its end is certain death.
The civilization Of politicians lift them
only to the plane Of cattle and, true to
themselves, they trampIe, gore and de-
strOy the people. The different animals
mentioned among the cattle designate
the grade of office and work assigned to
each.
SIXTB PLAGUE-BOLs AND BLAINs.
Every labor lodge is a boil every riot
or strike is a bIain. Every actOf resist
ance by the people to mOnOpOly-the
only government the world ever had
is to the body polite just what boiLs
and blaIns are to man-the virus of
poison force ! to the surface ard the sure
premOnirion Of dissolution. The vices
Of the political world has covered itself
with CancerOuS, uIcerous; gahgreened
sores. The only decent thing possible
to 1t now is to sink forever out of sight,
beneath the waves Of human WOE it has
made.
SEVENTH PLAGUE-HAIL
God executes every human event, and
the people are His visible hand by
which it is done. Your votes are the
hail stones that descended in pitiIess
.fury upon every head of republican
Pharaoh's cattle, that fed in the political
fields. The storm occurred last N0vem-
ber
EIGHTH PLAGUE-LOCUSTa
A locust that had eaten the whale
which had swallowed Jonah would be-
hungry still no matter how often or
completely gOrged, he would be eating
still. No sort of plumber escapes him
he is born to eat, lives to eat and dies
eating, and is the most dreaded scourge
Of every greenthing. This locust plague
is our banks. Their character and habits
duplicate the locust. Theology declares
a figure is only faint shadow of fact;
that all the figures of hell convey no
real sense of the damned; that the fact
is far beyond possible conception. Yes,
theology is right here. This locust plague
has eaten the world, and then announce
through their lick-spittle slave-the
president, in his last message-that if
the people. do mot surrender themselves
ia. their silver. for him to eat, why. thew