The Labor enquirer., 1884-05-17
ro,w.mindedness and dark tyranny.

row-mindedne@ and dark tyranny. 1t
has also shaken the world, aroused
friends and foes, here with enthusiasm,
there with wild licentiousness. 1t bore
great deeds and crimes beyond limit,
but took a course, directed by its per
verse friends, vet more by the reaction
of its enemies, which ran obliquely to its
primitive spirit. 1t also has been robbed.
by the power and deceit of its opponents,
Of the greatest part Of its conquests.
Both Revolutions proceeded from the
people, the masses of the nations, and
were not effected by the interest of indi-
yiduals or by the mere victory of fac
tions.
Revolutions of the latter kind, de-
structions of dynasties or individual
Caesars, are recorded by history in al
most unlimited numbers, buttheir mem
ories were annihilated within the CEN
tury of their enactments, mostly, with
out even having ruf1ed the surface of
the social status of it's contemporaneous
people. Others of deeper results were
enacted throughout history, with which
the masses became sympathetic sufferers.
The reformations of church and state,
however, which announced the begin
ming of new time of intelligence and
enlightenment, had their causes, their
motive powers and their objects in the
masses. They both produced deep and
permanent effect They established
both religious and political liberty of the
masses. Yet they did notIeven touch
social freedom. 1t was not yet time for
that. The people were not enlightened
enough for the conception of such. An
other century was necessary to establish
the fact that religious and political lib
erty have their conclusive results in
Social Liberty, Social Equality and Social
Fraternity.
This great French Revolution and the
great American one, both, opened new
era of light and mental understanding.
Without them the nineteenth century
would have fallen back into medieval
night. SIN 1900, either the world will
be republican or cossack," said Napoleon
the First once. 1t will, in 1900, be So
cially liberated, entirely free. The peo-
pie are, since 1899, progressing IN ratio
which seems to increase in the square
of the time passing They have become
aware that "self-preservation is the first
law Of nature" and they seem to be able
to act upon that doctrine with more
clear conception from decade to decade.
Education of the masses, after the
great French Revolution, became so
great necessity that none, not even the
task-masters, dared to oppose its promul-
CATION. Thus the nineteenth is marked
not alone with giant strides in the supe-
rior condition of educational institutions,
but in the arts and sciences of mankind.
The artisan has become an artist. The
toiler has become skilled being. The
division of labor has become systema-
tized. The peculiar aptitude of individ-
ual propensity is to-day taken more into
consideration than any other mark of
specially in the character of man. The
results of this condition of human soci-
ETY. are beyond estimation. Generation
upon generation the people are becoming
more effective in their conceptive ideas
and practically carry them into effect, as
a result of their moral conviction that
their physical and spiritual safety lies in
their constant endeavor to become inde-
pendent of their task-masters by force of
intellect and superior condition. The
masses are being organized to this doc
trine and experience the effects of CO.
operative protection against the social
arch foe, Capital, in beneficial manner
They know to-day that the last decades
of the nineteenth century are destined
to see battle for their social existence,
which they have to fight out, whether
they will or not. The tiger has drank
blood too long not to banker after the
flesh whence the long enjoyed liquid
came. And they Know beyond perad-
venture that Misrepresentation is the first
law Of nature"
W. X.-CARL WULsTEN.
- ITO be Continued