The Labor enquirer., 1883-04-14
THE WORLDS FINAL CRISIS,
4 Series Of Letters to Workingmen,
The Exclusive Nobility Of
Earth.

Crisis is God and the people hauling
the car Of progress against the brazen
wall of state and church erected to stop
them; revolution is their omnipotent
sweep through it,
The entire chain of events that marks
the worlds history to this day is crisis
eliminating in revolution, as certain
and uniform in their occurrence as the
flow Of ocean tide. Oppression sows the
seed broadcast; Tyranny watches and
waters it, until some legislative outrage
procIaims the harvest rlpe, then endur-
ance, trenz.ed and sdagger-pointed,
gathers it in a sea Of blood.
Every atom Of advance inthe creation
of the world has been gained Of these
two crowned devils-at the point Of the
bavonet, and finally over the headIesS
trunks of their fallen minIOns.
Each succeeding wave Of revolution is
the herald Of retribution, settling the
account Of agony and heart break dis
'ppDsed in their intervals, bearing upon
it's herv bosom practical sermon from
the text, "The measure yemete shall be
measured again, and each contributing
a pang to the worlds final birth.
Hitherto thesp~ struggles for life have
been local and distributes now they
are universal and Glntensitied to the last
strain OF endurance; deIiyerance OF
death stamps every feature; violence
bristes in every prayer; the kingdom
Of heaven ourrendero-the violent take
it by force.
a thousand years is a day with the
Lord,," we are told. Six Of these-tLe
creative period and hell Of our history
are past, in which the race, with trOd
have fought the battle II embryo life
created the world and themselves thus
far, gained tile intellectual and moral
sfatDrp of manhood that warrants Its
birth, and now, on the crumbHng verge
af the Old world, the Son OF Iod-the
human race-stand9 In~tMumph, covered
with yarlands evoked from the neither
most hell of the past, with every ne
,.Assity and Il knowledge Of their use ~
hand. 10 wipe out the old,ushermt thene"
and give t. the world Its seventh day "1
rest-the mIllenium-the IonG-pronlSed
Sabbath of God.
Conviction that the greatest event OF
history is about to trarsplre Is eVery'
where conflict is in every breath, clash
If arm, ON every breeze. The world IS
an active volcano, the ends OF the earth
and islands Of the sea constantly erupt
rh4 ashez of Thought and lava of deeds.
The pent.up desires Of It's mlllluns are
il white heat, surcharged with the
forces of A new life Universal explosion
is certain and soon.
Europe is girdled with unquenchaO}e
fire Ireland and Russia stand in cru
,ifyion So complete, d daring 50 IN
rrepid, PATRIOTISM 50 lofty, that Cal
vary is shadowed and the world
,hamed, Ireland on trial for asSasslna-
rlon ii Phoenix park Great God The
ndirtment is wrong She is guilty Of
murders in all degrees for not pIunglng
.rr dagger long ago, from Dublin Castle
t.,3e crowned hay" of Britain, whence
.>>.r the edicts Of damnaion, to the
rt.. that has sucked the, blood Of the
a,,~ and given the bones of our Dravest
aid Lest to whiten her sands.
America is Figuring and fooIing' with
..nsrrss. but soon will fight to the music
.. "Nictorv or Death" The wrongs
arI wrath Of her millions rock her, po-
.,u,tIIv and socially, like an earthquakes
Fran every state and territory comes
s.~ >,ranyIed cry, We are in the coils
u; Ill. anaconda" Yes, by the Great
Eternal we are, and few tweakS Of his
"a. Won't get us out, either Talk to an
41~.uIa" Reason with serpentS? Ap-
!e;D ~ subtIety? My Lord are We
-dt"s> Nay, verify; but. asleep, and
dreaming the serpent a myth that en-
t0ids is and lives on our life-blOod.
The most piuable babble Of dreamerS
Is now at hand. America is soon to call
lis swine, dogs and devils, in, congress,
10 Petition them for fair play. Yes, call
them together, do: And give them from
three to five miles length of petition.
Ihen petition King George, and Herod,
and Plate and Nero then tramp on, pc
utiOn in hand. calling on every wild