The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-16

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to provide forthe toiler -shen disabled
by sickness or age-as shareholders wer'
required to do. That most heartless ant
fiendish plan eyer devised by selfish
1 ness, has been carried out, and is work
ing more smoothly than the most san
guine Of its originators dreamed.
The plan has been accomplished by
conspiracy between the robbers OF Eu
rope and of our country. The gran6
purpose of that conspiracy is to pu
4 American society in the same category
! with that of the old world. What ii
that condition British writers assure
us that the peasants of India, number
ing 19O,OO0,OOO. are reduced to utterly
hopeless poverty. They tell us that the
drain of interest and taxes out of the
product of labor, which has been de.
pressed to minimum prices in cash, is SC
exhaustive that 1t has left only bare
subsistence to the toilers. 1t has moi
permitted them 10 repIenish the wastes
of the years, and absolute destitution is
reached. With good crops and freedom
from epidemics, the people only exist.
With crop failures, or the coming of dis.
ease, which poverty engenders, multi.
tudes starve to death.
The condition of the peasantry of Ire
land is scarcely better; and so of all
countries of Europe. Everywhere
squalor and misery and vice-a trinity
always combined-are on the increase.
Every breeze across the ocean is bur-
.dened with the wall of woe and despair.
Where have the results of the ex-
haustiye toll of those despairing mill
lions gone? ss
To luxurious, rioting class of robbers.
A portion to support In idleness and
luxury the attaches of civil administra-
tions. For instance, the queen of Eng
land and her numerous family drain
millions annually out of toll, and on
these millions travel, hunt, give balls,
etc. Larger portions go to support more
than 100000 soldiers and their aristo-
cratic affairs, and all the expensive para
phernalia of war. The purpose of these
armies is to keep the masses working as
slaves. Other and larger portions still,
60 to the support IN fabulous wealth q
moneyed aristocracy. That aristocracy
controls labor, by guaging wages, through
manipulating money, which is the life
blood of labor and business. The drain
of interest that this class takes out Of
labor is far greater than the drain Of
taxes, and taxes are largely for interest
going to them. ~.
The single house Of Rothchilds costs
fabulous sums. They have gathered
billions. One of the brothers has ex-
pended enormous sums On a barn, max
ing it palace worthy comparison with
the gorgeous residence of the moguls OF
India. The direct support of the money
kings costs far more than they permit to
governments and their armies. All this
measureless drain is oUt of, the toll of
the masses who are doomed to drudge
all their working hours, subsist on the
meanest food, cover their nakedness
with rags, burrow in places only fit for
swine and leave their children to grow
up without care, education or hope.
This state of things steadily grows
worse.
The same conditions are being rapidly
fastened upon US. The Capitalization of
the wealth produced by the labor of our
country is more rapid than ever Europe
witnessed.
The ability to produce from nature
means for the necessities, comforts and
culture of mankind, has been increased
very many fold within the present CEN
tury. This marvellous increase has re-
suited principally from three sources.
First, discovery of the latent provisions
of nature, among which are coal, petro-
leum, rubber and mines of many kinds,
sich as tin, zinc, copper, silver and gold,
and measureless fields of iron. Second.
discovery of the occult forces of nature
and how to harness them to the multi.
piled machinery we have invented. In
stead of sowing grain by hand, seeders
scatter it of reaping with sickles, head
ers cut thirty acres per day; of spinning
by hand, the spinning jennie makes yarn
thousand fold faster, etc. Once more
the facilities of distribution by railroads
and steamboats, have increased the
ability to subordinate nature to mans
behest immeasurably. 1t is safe to af
firm those and other causes of less mo-
ment, have increased the power to pro-
duce wealth very many fold.
All these advantages are shared by ui
far more fully than by any other people
Our resources are inexhaustible. We've
right to expect that all who are willing
to labor shall not only share the necessi
ties Of. life, but comforts, and moderate
luxuries and ministeries to education
without physical drudgery.
But the fact is, that the wageworker,
of this country are harder worked anc
suffer more of poverty than ever before
and this condition is steadily gaining
The immense wealth they create is de
veloping moneyed aristocracy, the mos
avaricious, arrogant and oppressive tina