The Labor enquirer., 1885-05-23
NARROW MINDED.

:, The, associated press the other day
brought the news that the Chicago Trades
Assembly had passed resolution TO the
effect that Socialists would not be al
lowed TO march IN the annual parade of
the assembly, whereupon the Tribune
Republican says editorially, Anarchy
and Socialism are the worst foes the
American laboring man has Just now"
For positive editorial brilliancy this
remark of the Re epublican is simply
grand and as far as the Chicago Trades
Assembly IS concerned, we'll, it must be
made up of narro ow-miIded egotists
Narrow must be the mind of the labor
agitator which would conceive plot to
refuse the support Of any kindred organ
ization, aud when the rejected organiza-
ton is composed of men Of ideas, men
who have the ability to understand the
labor question in all its ramifcations, as
the Socialists do, such ac;ion is crime
against society and posterty.
Even if the ordinary trades unionist
cannot, through lack .of understanding,
fully endorse the ideas Of Socialists, it
certainly looks idiotlc for him to refuse
the assistance of anY'man or woman who
is the honest friend of the laborer; and
he who says the Socialist is not the de-
voted and uncompromising friend of the
wage-worker displays his ignorance. 1t
is impossible at present to get all the
labor agitators to adopt the same ideas,
but there is no sense in there being an
tagonisms between them.
These antagonisms are the hope OF
capitalism it is by these divisions that
the leeches are enabled to retain their
. bidSd-ssaoktng hold upon tho producers,
and % long as they can keep up war
fare between classes Of labor advocates
so long will they feel secure of their prey.
The Socialists can better reconcile
themselves to these differences than any
other class; because they feel sure of the
ultimate result, for they are bouved up
by the saving grace of true ideas, and are
not whirled hither and thither by the
fluctuations in the labor market" or the
rise and fall of wages And then they
know that nothing but death robs them
of follower, while every moment of
time records the adoption of the true
science by those who cannot, will not
ever again be free from the influences OF
truth.
AS for the comments Of the Tribune,
Republican, it signifies nothing more
than is plain from everything that paper
has ever said upon the subject: that the
editor is either hopelessly ignorant OF
recklessly untruthful. Which is "the
worst foe" the laboring man has to-day
it is hard to say positively; we differ
upon that point. But some of the very
bad foes are, Ignorance upon social ques-
tions, superstition, commercial and judi
cial knavery. Yet it might be summed
up in one of the foes cited in the Repub.
lican: anarchy-the lack of government
The thing we are now palming of as
government is simply oppressiont tyr
amy, anarchical, SELFISH individualism.
The Chicago Trades Assembly and
the Denver Republican may continue to
raise their feeble protests against the
march of saving ideas, but they will be
found to be but puny obstacles in the
onward march of civilization and educa-
ton, and the day may come when theil
narrow minds shall expand sufficiently
to enable them to see that plan which
te nporizes with injustice and robs the
producer, while it starves and debauches
his wife and children, will not be per-
mitted by just God to exist, no matter
what may be the desires of narrow ma,
lures or prostituted intellects.