The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-20
A True Woman.

True Woman.
Correspondence San Francisco Truth.
The anti-monopoly sentiment pervades
this entire Republic; and is vastly in
the ascendancy over all other political
ideas; and yet there is no anti-monopoly
party, nor any present prospect of one.
1t seems to me that there is a great
ripening of thought in this direction,
and that 1t will be quite ripe by the
next presidential campaign.
When ] read the Republican papers
and see the plans they are projecting for
the reinstatement of the old, crippled,
dismembered and obsolete party, and
Democratic papers, with their wild
dreams of coming victory, based upon
the late election results, | have a certain
reservation of thought that means more
than any outspoken negative, and l
know that both these parties are reckon
ing without their host.
The whole people as mass are oper-
ated upon the same as single individ-
ual. Thoughts work silently in a mans
brain, accommodating to themselves other
thoughts, taking wider range, increasing
in force silently day by day, unanal Yzed
by the man himself until he has under
gone the most radical change without
being conscious of it, and until some
event, perhaps trifing, sends tidal wave
from his brain to his heart, aWaking a
flood of feeling that completes his trans
formation and shows him all in afash
that he is a new man.
This is exactly the feeling Of the
American people as a whole to. day. To
a superficial observer it seems that in
justice was never so securely protected
by the laws Of the country. 1t is not
considered that the law-making power
is in the people, and that the tornado is
growing in the hearts Of the people that
will surely sweep away every vistage of
our present law, and substitute SOME
thing vastly improved in its place.
AS in the last days before harvest ma,
ture summons her forces with intense
rapidity for the completion Of her work
so in these last days preceding the radi
cal change, all things are conyerging
with unseen but lightning speed toward
the great denouement in 1884.
The iniquitouS schemers of the peoples
ruin are sleeping and dining in sumptious
security, unconscious Of the volcano be-
meath their feet AS Christ said, "The
dav of wrath shall come to them as a
thief in the night" 1t will be un-
heralded. The dance will be broken and
the song cut in twain, and the dismayed
betrayers of a nations honor will be
scattered as with the four winds of
heaven.
Our capitalists are hurrying this work.
To them we must look for every move
ment that hastens the change until the
point is reached where the peoples
thought establishes communication with
tue peoples heart. Then will the spark
be struck and the conhagatiOn kindIed.
The laborers and producers are not
yet enough in earnest. They are not
yet enough oppressed. They manage to
squeeze through the days and weeks,
and live under the wrongs they bear. |
They know nothing of that divine impa-
tience that renders even the shadow OF
wrong unbearable. This apathy on their
part simply delays results. 1t constantly
invites the capitalists to further outrages,
which invitation is as constantly accepted
and the point will eventually/be reached
when the deadest man on this continent
will lift his languid eyes in inquiry and
rise his heavy hand in blind and dumb
God knows what misery lies EMBODIED |
in the womb of the present, awaiting its
two years more of maturation! But 1t
will be greater birth than the greatest
prophet of to- day can forecast. Look at
the seething, boiling elements of the
social and political world. See how
high handed crime stalks through every
land under the sun, clothed with inVul-
nerable authority. Then look into the
hearts and brains of the people-dull.
dead, impassive as they seem. Thought
is there with its quickening power, and