The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-18

clares to ell IND kind Ne injd lice OF
permitting i mol 5poly ~ any lass Of
any Of Natures stores Of wealth.
The present mechanical civilization Of
the world has become possible only
through division Of labor and machine
production. and these in their turn
could only arise through semi social
izatlon Of the worlds producers, "a
socialisation bearsin mind that extended
only SO far as their organisation for ef-
fectiye toll was concerned. the prime
object being goods, not MEN. The ethics
Of labor were disregarded, the principles
Of Justice were violated, q class Of loiter-
ers were allowed to seize upon the tools
and the materials to the exclusion Of
the workers and as an inevitable result
our so-called " civilization totters to it's
fall. Nature, herself OUTRAGED in her
diyinest laws, gathers the earthquakes
and unlooses the storms Of Retribution.
AS steam replaced water power and
starved fifty millions of people; as cleo
tricity will replace steam and starye aas as
many more unless in starving they rise
and break their chains, so will other
and greater forces in the DAYS that are
to be, supplant the electric fluid and
finally by reducing productions cost to
zero, force the worlds workers to death
IN droyes or sting them into manhood
enough to take their own.
Even now 1t is presaged. II
The glancing sunbeams, source of all
life, energy and force, have been seized
BY man and are being bound down to
the grim machine. ID a5 ! 4t31S':".s.3
z Gallon has dared to ask why the god
that shone on Belus and sent his sheayes
Of golden light to gild the palaces Of
Perseopolis, shall not now be servant
instead of deity. The sunlight Of the
heavens has been concentrated by a
machine so that its "owner," Gallon, can
use it in place ofmen. BY it he can sup
ply limitless power; continuous energy
manifested in steam caloric for hot air
engines and cheap electricity gathered
in storage cells will be produced at one
hundredth of present cost. By this con-
centrator, already claimed to be prac-
tical ccess,-hydrogen gas can be made
from water for nothing, and this the
best fuel known, can be stored in bottles
and tanks for use when desired. But
this is not all, a pencil Of light itself can
be made so intense that 1t carves stones
in twain, and this the great scientist as
serts, can be used in mining or any other
industrial enterprise. Its advantage in
smelling refractory ores is wonderful.
In brief the old Archimedian romances
of the defense of Syracuse when the
gigantic burning glasses of the island
sage flashed death among the Cartha-
genian ships, are realized in practice
in the nineteenth century, and the sun
lights thunderbolts are grasped in the
Jovian hand of an undersized scientist
dressed in tweed.
This sunshine does not eat, nor drink,
nor sleep, nor marry, nor strike, nor
grumble, nor fight. 1t demands no
wages and turns no Socialistic crank.
Gallon owns it, thoug h God made it for
you and I. Gallon will patent it. He
will incorporate it. He will record it on
reams of legal cap. He will capitalize
it; and coin it with our blood and bones
and Drawn into shining gold to add to
that fearful incubus under which we
even now groan and die.
What ho Workers of the world are
you indeed the SCUM of the earth that
you will suffer the very sunshine of the
heavens to be gathered against you, be-
fore you dare to speak and Do2
BURNErrE G HASKELL.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 6, 1885.