The Labor enquirer., 1884-11-08

upon tke pefson Who commits them or
who Wishes 70 instituke prosecution.
The other day young lswyer ID good
standing. walked into q shop With his
gun, and finding there msn with whom
he had'been on i'll terms for year past.
shot him dead. This transaction being
quite public, the formality Of atrial could
not well be avoided; thejnry found the
young lawyer insane, and he was sent to
. lunatic asylum, but as the manager re-
fused to keep him, declaring him per-
fectly sane, he went home and there was
no fnrthor notice taken Of it.
In view Of such facts, repeat that, ut
matters little what the laws are alt de-
pends on their construction and applica-
tion.n In other words, the only laws
that are needed are such as are unneces-
safy, because public opinion sufices
really to exercise that control to which
the law pretends Such is the acknowl-
edged order of anarchism, which dis
penses with our cumbrous, expensive
and inefficient legislation.
Let me now advert 20 the. second pet
labomination of the virtuous Zeno. |
will tell him an interesting story.
There is in Guntersville. here. a rich
merchant who began not many years ago
hnckstsr lad. with capital of S. in
candies and knicknacks. Frugal and
steady, be traded along, until there
ehanced total failure of crops. The
farmers, generally DOOR and without the
genius of combination, were about to
starve, when Mr.. Fl. imported number
of steamboat loads of corn, bought at 80
cents and sold at $3.50 per bushel on
credit, taking liens on property. Some
farmers eventually lost their farms and
| many their stock, but they all saved
their bacon" for the nonce, and III. was
regarded as public benefactor. Such
cases show how wide a margin Of conn
promise exists between the exorbitant
privilege which commerce and capital
| now enjoy and the utter priyation of any
] premium upon economic foresight,
Threatened by the silly cries of rent and
interest are all rooberY" 1t is like a
child breaking a knife, because he has
/ cut his hand with it, Rent and interest
can be abated, but only by judlcious COM
binations among working people who
can trust each other and stand by each
other. Had the farmers in this section
been associated, they might have saved
/ at least half what they paid to the mer-
chant, by employing onesof their own
society as agent.
shall not be betrayed into a defense
of Emerson, who, like Jesus, is only un-
derstood by his elect. His purse is filled
with fairy gold, which, to Zeno, has the
rattle of dry leaves. AS the recipient,
such is the reception. Therefore it would
be idle TO begrudge Zeno the pleasure
of nlisrepresenting me. His squint at
my tendencies in favor of usurers and
land monopolisls is highly original. |
admire the profound intuition which has
made this discovery. l need not ask
what has suggested it, since SO lively an
Imagination scorns the aid ofvulgar
facts He has evolved this from his own
inward consciousness, like the German
artists picture of the camel, which he
never saw and which resembled nothing
either in the heavens above, or in the
earth beneath, or in the waters around
the earth. Such originality of concep.
tion may even dispense with a diction,
ary; Its microscopic acumen beats the
s'bathybins" of Professor Huxley, who
discerned the origin of species in bit
of slime dredged up from deep sea
soundings. could only wish that 4Zeno's
sympathetic Intuitions were in some
slight degree shared by my former
friends in the capitalist class, who live
upon their revenues for every one Of
them, on seeing my signature under my
writings, has forthwith cut nay acquaint.
ance, Ny impartial moderation then
seems to be sort of chameleon, in
which the opposite spectators see, each
only the color that he hates. Neverthe-
less, shall abide by my convictions.
NJ. E. LAZARUS, NJ. D.