The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
THEIR HELLESH GREED.
Man Famishing for Food Will Turn
Upon the Robbers Who Have
an Abundance.

Editor LABOR ENQUIRER:
, LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, Dec Sin my last
article l tried TO show that when the
workers of the world would come to un-
aderstand the terrible wrongs brought
upon them by the present competitive,
cut-throat system, and would learn that
the remedy was in their own hands,
they would not be slow to avail them
selves Of it, and that agitation and edu-
cation was necessary, 70 bring them to a
sense of their own power. 1E-..5 ..z...@
Since 1 wrote that l have had my
thinking cap on, and the result is that !
want to modify somewhat my former
statement. If capitalists and corpora
tions had, won't say a soul, but only
part of one, that is to say: if they had
any sense of right and wrong, SO as to
accord to the builders up of their for
tunes only part of the privileges they
(the workers) are justly entitled to !;
then think that things might go on un-
disturbed for an indefinite time. But
owing to the hoggish greed and selfish
ness of the moneyed class, the lesson is
taught the workers in different way.
There is no argument SO potent, no phil
osophy so acute as the gnawing of a hun
gry stomach. As a living being, man is
superior to the brutes in organization
and intellect, but man is an animal, and
his animal instincts aroused, he becomes
no better than the wild beasts, and, like
them, revels in slaughter and carnival to
satisfy his animal wants. The ravenous
wolf devours those of his own kind that
fall by the way, and man famishing from
want of food turns upon those who have
an abundance. What lesson this ought
to be to the rich ! The very law of self
preservation ought to teach them that
thew cannot forever trample upon the
workers without danger to themselves.
But to satisfy their hellish greed, they
heed neither warnings nor complaints,
and even gloat over the misery of their
victims. Their most sensitive part is
their pockets, and through their pockets
alone can they be reached. 1 would not
be understood by this to advocate riot
and revolution. Mol Far from it /!
With all my heart wish that the reso-
luton by G.. S. Griffin at the late Social
lshc demonstration in Chicago, was true
that hungry and starving workingmen
and their families ought to celebrate
Thanksgiving for the knowledge they
have of the causes of their poverty and
the means they have at hand TO over
throw the existing state of things if they
| would only unite on some practical line
of action. 1 say | wish with all nv
heart that this was true 1t is true as
| far as Socialists and thinkers are con-
cerned, but not in regard to the masses
In general. mol To all appearance the
only way to end the present unjust,
social system leads through revolution,
because the laborlng men won't exert
their own power peacefully, and it Is
doubtful if they could under the present
system of voting, and the rich never
were known to let 60 their hold peace
fully. .: 3D.. -.
The article by Simeon Stetson on the
ballot monopoly is true, every word Of
| it. and is in full accord with my own
sentiments. 1t shows plainly wnat de-
generate sons we have become from our
worthy revolutionary fathers They
fought against taxation without repre-
isentation, but one-half of the people of
this country not only perform all the
duties of citizens and allow themselves
to be taxed by the, state and national
government without being represented,
but even permit greedy and ambitious
men to amass colossal fortunes out of the
| products Of their labor. SunCus.