The Labor enquirer., 1884-08-16
Rogue. who Have cnarxs Of the Door,

Reprinted from the International Herald,
London, May II, 1872, with slight alterations.
A century hence and where will you be-
you soil owners, you money grabbers, you
profit mongers, you surplus value pirates?
Will you claim ownership in heayen9 You
earth ownersl T.
Will you demand interest and profit and
surplus value III heaven? You sspeeulatorS
and investors and organizers Of indusryp
viii you require Wallets, maids, menials
and pomatum in heaven9 You daWdling,
artificial, useless idlers!
And you! Fox-hunting, carriage-riding,
gown-wearing, wine-drinking, money wor-
shipping, belly-loying, woodworking, lisping,
canting and prating parsons. Will you per
suade other people in heaven that you must
be well-fed and clothed, while they must look
for their reward in yet another world to
Gomez Do you really think you will feel
happy in suchaIheayen as you hay described?
Are you prepared to spend eternity in singing
hymns and playing on harps9 Are you very
anxious to die SO that you may go to the heay-
en- of gold and precious stones you talk about3
You Bishops and Archbishops you
think the people will always be foolsP You
gllbly damn all who differ from you and your
sinister and selfish misreading of the Bible.
/ read that he who breaks one commandment
breaks them all, and read again that on the
Sabbath no horse or servant shall labor. But
you take your ease in your carriage as you go
to your Sunday work.. Are there greater
sins then, Oh, Bishop! than the breaking of
every commandment
Here is prince, but he only looks like
man.
/ say, young fellow, how do you get your
liyingp u
Do you want an apprentiee2 Is it very
hard work. How much a week do you get,
and who is your master? :. s.
A thousand a week Why, you're fooling!
Now, let's have none of your nonsense. 1
till the ground and work all the year round,
but somehow / never can save. "A thousand
week Why, have worked thirty years,
and all put together / never got so much as
that. H ~
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You Princes! don't envy you, but pity
you. You, like the toiIers, are victims, but
you are more in bonds than they. You curse
the shaekles and long for the breath of free
dom. You have ambition you dare not let
play. No gold or paradings can satisfy long
ings for natural life. You may well break
the rules of decorum and play the devils
tattoo Youhaye been cursed by the fashion
ables, parasites, funkeys and rouges. They
have made you their marionettes, and have
charge of the doors.
OF course they are loyal, and; will be so
long as it pays. Die one King and up goes
another. Punch and Judy all over.
Poor Princes Poor People! The rogues
have charge Of the doors.
And is this the thing they call pauper?
70 me he looks like a brother. Who has
been so cruel to my brother, and disfigured
him thus What great crimes has my brother
committedP Did he cease to work for the
rogues who have charge of the doors?
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Here isa worker in iron-a giant. Gimme
me your hand, Redeemer! Why, you trem-
bIeI What gay haired and wrinkled!
Come, this will not do, my brother. 1t IS time
you rested. Don't be greedy of work, you
yourself have earned enough.
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Here comes bundle of rags, and inside
the rags woman. / take the hand of my
sister and do not mind the foulness; and |
see that my sisters face is scarcely human
face. And blame not her-but the rogues
who have charge of the doors
This woman surely has never heard of .
Queen-of the sister who boards so much
wealth and is kind And the bishops can
not have heard of this woman, or else they
would have clothed her, for the bishops have
ample store apart from their treasures in
heaven.
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A few years hence my brothers and sisters
will be rewarded-and so will those who
have charge Of the doors.
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