The Labor enquirer., 1884-06-14

4 OF ravenous vampires who thirst for his
, last drop Of blood. On the other hand,
the rich man never stops his work Of
d exploiting, though he may be utterly un-
| able to assign reason for his greed. He
that has 81 ,OOd, ,OOo would have $4,000
! 600; he that has $1oO, ,OOO, 900 would have
s., ,OOO. 100000.
4 The greed for wealth is closely associ-
ated with the greed for power. Wealth
is not only generator of more wealth,
it is also political power. Under the
present capitalistic system yenality is an
falI-pervading vice. Its as a rule a mere
matter Of price which will buy over
those who may be of service either by
speech or silence, by the pen or by the
press, by acts OF violence or any other
means, to the 'fbeast of property" which
by its golden dictates is the absolute,
almighty divinity. ..
In Europe and America there are
several hundred thousand priests and
ministers, specially provided for to
poison the common sense of the masses.
Nunberless missionaries wander from
house to house spreading senseless tracts,
or commit other spiritual" mischief. In
the schools strenuous attempts are made
to nullify what little good the training
in reading, writing and clphering may
bring with it. Idiotic maltreatment of
"historY" excites that blatant prejudice
which divides people, and prevents them
from recognizing the fact, that their OPP
pressors have long ago leagued together
against them, and that all politics, past
and present, has the only object in view,
that of firmly establishing the power of
the rulers, and thereby ensuing the ex-
ploitation of the poor by the rich.
The hawking trade in loyalty and
order intoxicants" is attended to by the
inkslingers of the daily press, numerous
literary perverters of history, by political
heelers of the various predominating
cliques, rings, combinations and organi-
cations, by parliamentary windbags with
seductive smiles, pledges on their lips
and treason in their hearts, and hundreds
of other politicians of all degrees and
shades of YilIalny..
Whole squads of bushwhackers are
specially employed in mystifying the
social question. The professors of po-
llitical economy for instance, play the
part of lackeys to the bourgeoisie, extoll-
ing the golden calf as the true sun of
life, and using falsehood and knavery 80
scientifically" that they make the tan
ming of worklngmen's hides appear as a
benefaction to mankind. Some of those
charlatans recommend social reform, or
in other words, processes, based on the
maxim of washing without wetting;
not to mention their celebrated recipes
for economizlng and educating.
While thus bamboozling the masses
the capltalistic knights of plunder con-
tinue to perfect their mechanism OF
power. New offices are created. High
positions in these are filled in Europe by
the progeny of the former highwaymen
| NOW "nobleman'D in America by the
most crafty Office hunters and the most
willy thieves, who combine with their
original purpose of authoritativelY gagging
the proletariat, the very pleasant busi-
ness of illtapping and forgery on a
grand scale. They command armies of
soldiers, gendarmes, policemen, spies,
judges, prison-keepers, toll-keepers, tax
collectors, executors, ETC., etc. The lower
class of this beadledom are almost
wholly recruited from the ranks of the
non-posessors. and are only exceptionally
better paid. For all that they display
great zeal as spies eaves-droppers, and
poke-noses, as claws, teeth and suckers
of the state, which institution is evil
IDENTIFY nothing more nor less that the
political organization of a horde of
swindIers and spoliators, who without
the tyrannizing machinery could not
exist for one day before the just wrath
and condemnation of the oppressed and
plundered people.
In most of the old countries this system
has naturally reached its point of culmi-
nation in the outer form. The entire
disciplinary apparatus of the state con-
centrates in a monarchic power. Its
representatives "by the grace of God"
are, in accordance, the very quintessence
of villainY. In them all vice and crime
common to the ruling classesis developed
to a monstrous degree. Their most
agreeable occupation is wholesale MUIR
der WAR; when they rob, and they do
it often, they always rob entire countries
and hundreds, even thousands of mil
lions. Incendiarism on colossal scale
serves to illuminate their atrocities.
They adhere to the notion, that mankind
exists for them to kick, cuff and spit
upon. At the best, they make it worth
their while to select the most attractive
women and girls from among their Sub
jects" to satiate their beastly lusts. The
others have the right to most obedi-
emily" die like dogs.
By direct blackmail these crow ned
murderers of Europe annually pocket
$5O,OOOOO0. Militarism, their pet pro-
geny, annually costs 81 900, 100000, not
taking in consideration the loss of life