The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-04

no injnstlce, no suasring from mans in
humanity, vhat need would there bt
then for either the iconoclast or the 70
former? Itis because We suffer that ",
seek ! way out of our misery. It is be
cause injustice prevails that we cry ou
for Justice, The present system we So,
is bad and must be abolished. Very
good but if the present system were no
| bad we should not say it must be abol
ished, and We should not work so hard
for its destruction. There would be nc
necessity for either the iconoclast or the
reformer therefore it is right that the
present system is bad; because this
makes it impossible for us to realize thai
there can be something better. How
does aZeno" like the syllogism?
The law Of causation does ignore indl.
viduals. Whether sZenos likesit or no
he is a creature of that law. Whether
he believes it or not he is obliged to sue
Icumb to its mandates He cannot escape
| it do what he will. Yes, 1zeno," the
same law which causes the earth to open
and swallow thousands OF human beings,
produces the battle IN which multitudes
are slain. It is the same law which
sinks the ship in mid ocean, which pro
duces the cause of human misery and
woe on the one hand and raises up the
iconoclasts and reformers, to remove
these causes, on the other. Remember
this "Zeno': had not the little child been
compelled TO work at the loom and
the consumptive sewing woman been
obliged to gasp over her fire at midnight,
there would have been no work for you
and to do. We could not have had
iconoclasts had there been nothing that
needed destroying, nor reformers if there
had been nothing to reform. Remem-
Der, I am not saying that all thisis right;
I am not discussing the justice or injus-
tlce of this law; Lam only pointing out
its existence, and that we cannot escape
from its workings five would.
One thing more and 1 am done.
"Zenop asks: "Can you blow up sys-
tem7" Yes, "zeno," we can. Every
dynamite explosion having for its object
the removal of despotism, every bomb
thrown which carries terror to the
hearts of the peoples oppressors, and
which destroys even the smallest portion
of the machinery of oppression, whether
it be IN the shape of men, or buildings,
or mines, is nail driven into the coffin
of the old system. How manv such ~ex-
plosions like the one that recently oc-
cured in London do you suppose this
old rotten syste n will stand? Is it not
true that the reyerberations of those
explosions reached round the world ?
Why; people who have never given
the subject a moments thought are
now asking themselves what it all
means. The agitation resulting from
that scare has been almost without par
allel in the history Of the movement.
Has "Zeno" forgotten the Social Cul-
ture Club" and the stirring up of the
silk-stockings there? And that was a
direct result Of the London explosions,
and butene of many such scenes result
ing from the same cause. | am perhaps
inpatient. I long to see the cause tri-
umph all over the world, and for this
reason I would like to hear of the explo-
sion Of a bomb, and the consequent re-
moval of a tyrant or his works every
week.
Every such concussion would be to me
knell of the tottering and dying sys.
tenn, and the sweetest music in the
world. # r. -. 5 g.. CATO.