The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-09
DYNAMITE is strong to-day at Acc.
WHERE DO YOU sTANDs

The movement of the people is grow
ing with rapidity never before seen in
an educational undertaking. The peo-
pie are awakening and enrolling them
selves under the red banner of the new
Reformation. The light is spreading,
and the spirit of '76 is awakening, in this
country while from other lends comes
cheering news of fruitful propaganda,
and the growth of Freedoms crusade.
The logic of life and the sympathy OF
humanity are fast erasing the idiotic and
superstitious lines of race, color, sex and
creed, and the heart of the just and true
man gladdens at the shout of working
men of all lands, Unite p as his inspired
voice re-echoes the cry.
This is the aspect which is spread be-
fore us in our calm and thoughtful mo-
ments. There is hope which wells up
in the heart and inspires with confidence.
1t is true there are times when a heart
grows faint and worker discouraged,
because the progress seems not to keep
pace with feverish desire-in some par
ticular locality.
plead guilty to an occasional faint
heartedness, myself. But when 1 reflect
that the great work is not bounded by
my narrow field that the light is shin
ing on the world at large; that the
growth in my own vicinity, which fail to
discern clearly, may be plainly visible to
eyes not strained with long and eager
searching-when I think of all these
things I realize how small part in such
magnificent event as the coming revo-
luton is one small man, and say, mo
matter though I fall and stiffen by the
path-side, the great army of Freedom,
Justice and Equality marches on to vic
tory and the triumph of those principles
which are not diminished though a
million followers fall, and the angels of
Satan oppose in countless numbers"
How many haYe experienced such
feelings IN the battles for Right which
were fought and won long before you
and 1, dear reader, saw the light ? How
many pure. minded, self.denying heroes
to-day suffer under heavy trials and
languish in grimy prisons or dreary
exiles that Freedom may bloom afresh
and in grandeur never known before 1?
The answers to these questions which
CLEAN out from the pages of history and
the living monuments of the heroism of
our own time, stir the soul to its very
depth, and make the laggards and weak
kneed among us to stand erect and firm
in an humble pride engendered of a
hope to be placed even at the extreme
end of such a volume of revolutionists.
What do the trifing inconvenience,
the few physical pains, the throes of
death in such warfare count against
the consummation of Human Freedom,
the God-like consciousness of a duty
faithfully performed? What are the
scars of battle to the crowns of holy
and deserved victory2 Nothing N
Then, appeal to you, lovers of Free
doms, Men and Women of the People
to buckle tight your armor, replenlsh
your armory with the eloquence o.
Truth, and go forth to shed the radiance
of Justice over the cloud-enveloped sons
of man and slay the monsters Injustice
Despotism and Superstition.
Rally to the standard of Equality
60 forward under the red flag of Inter
nation Brotherhood swell the song O.
Liberty, and slsy the devil, Oppression
Do this, and you will be worthy tt
share in the prosperity and peace of s
liberated and happy people
Stand idly by in this hour of struggle
and the wrath of insulted Truth shal
burn and consume thy conscience.