The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-21
THE COMING REVOLUTION.
Socialists Not the Ignorant Mob Capital
lists Paint Them, but Thoughtful,
Intelligent Revolutionists.

Editor Labor Enquirer.
Who are numbered in the ranks Of the
Revolutionists?
Not an ignorant mob, but the thought
full, the humane, the sage and philoso-
pher.
Friend Labadie's experience is that of
thousands. AS long as the undeveloped
RESOURCES of this vast country afforded
an opportunity for the industrious and
enterprislng Individual to rise above the
drudgery of q menlal wages kept up and
the majority of those who occupied the
most degraded positions were either
Europeans who had served master for
generations or the African, both of whom
were looked upon as inferior specimens
of humanity, if indeed they were human
at all. A few years ago there were so
many avenues by which men could reach
a competency, if not afauence that little
attention was paid to the condition
of our less fortunate brothers; indeed
so many opportunities existed by which
thew could throw off the yoke of bond
age that we we're accustomed to regard
them as untitled for a higher sphere in
life if they failed to work out their own
salvation, besides the compensation for
such service was so liberal that the
wage-worker was comparatively con-
tent with his condition. In those
days if the scion of blue blood found
himself reduced to penury there were
always people ready to provide him
with respectable employment, but as
population increased and the resources
of the country concentrated into the
hands of the few and machinery sup
planted the wage worker, not only drlv-
ing him into enforced idleness but null
! tiplying the articles which had previously
afforded hrm employment thereby re-
ducing consumption and cheapening the
price of raw material until at last the
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not only the former wage slave in the
face, but theform well-to-do bourgeolse
as we'll. Blue, blood or pedigree no
longer exempts an individual from the
general ruin that has overtaken us. The
learned and refined, the beautiful and
tender, the lovely maiden and am bilious
youth are all being swept into this mael-
strom of degradation and poverty. 30
cialists are no longer the Ignorant mop
whose idea of political economy is
leveling up of society by dividing up
among themselves the wealth of the
country and starting anew under the
system that has robbed them. But they
are thinkers who have been driven by
force of circumstances to solve the social
problem. They are persons whose gene
rous and humane instincts would not
permit them to grind the face of thelI
brothers or rob their own flesh anc
blood IN their inordinate greed for cain
They are intelligent men and women
who having felt the effect of poverty
have sought for its cause which having
found thev set themselves to work t.
find remedy having discovered tn
remedy they are determined to apply it
The opposers of Socialism are fools tt
think that we will tamely submit longe
to being despoiled of the fruits of ou
labor. Think you that our proud, sensl
tive nature will forever submit to occup
the lowect round in the social scale, o
! that we will always consent to be clothe
- in rags or suffer with hunger when th
. land teens with plenty. To the thinke
is not the near approach of the Revolt
ton inevitable2 Is it not as fixed
g fact as the simplest problem of math'
matics? 1t is not the "canallle drive