The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-18
BKioF GOOD CHEER.

Often now QlSCOurdRus ~ 40 w WY
promoters of any undertaking. to learn
that some one IN whom great trust has
been placed, has proved faishless, has
deserted. In the great cause OF labor
emancipation there has been much
trouble from such. When one in whom
great confidence and hope has been
placed falls a victim to his own selfish
craving or to the wiles Of our enemies, 1t
not only causes the faithful pang, but
retards the growth of tl1e cause, by the
influence had upon beginners and those
whom we are trying to make think and
act with us.
But he who is truly welded to the
cause wavels not though traitor crop
out in eVery moment Of time but such
things only make him double his reso-
lutlons and energies and work the harder
in the field which will sooner or later
Weld the bountiful harvest.
There is preventive against treach'
erous leaders, and it is to make no
leaders. In the strt ggle for human
liberty all should be lee ders, and so it is
with those whose hearts, are wholly given
to the cause, and wren one falls, it
simply creates a vacancy in the ranks
that is at once filled by the army closing
in upon the center.
Down with the would-be leaders of
the labor movement" we tight for all
mankind, and not to rear over our heads
the selfshly ambitious of our own kind.
Be of good cheer, comrades; we are
gaining ground. Let Us steel our hearts
and nerve our arms and pres0 on to GER
tain victory, and give 10 more time to
mourning over the tree cherry of former
associates or the lassitude OF, some of
those for whom we labor.
Here is q specimen O.: one kind of let
ters receive, and while it contains moth
ing but truth, 1t betrsys a discourage
ment unworthy the writer and the holy
cause he has espoused:
n0h in tho nanne of raaroy, justica and
humanity, when will our suffering, de-
luded race and especially that part who
depend upon productive industry for
living, be brought into proper equilli
brlum7 Labor, all over the world, seems
TO be divided into two great classes, the
one run mad in selfish indivldualism,
and the other standing at tle feet of
priests and politicians like a herd of
stupid jackasses who orly bray at their
masters when the merciless lash cuts
little too deep. They gnaw, bark, eat
dirt and think it feast wher, permitted
to partake of the garbage that remains
of that bountifuI repast which they have
produced and prepared fortheir masters.
Such men are always law-abiding citi-
zens, and at every election they cast a
vote for the best candidate. When un-
selfish labor reformers have dragged
them from the degrading sluns wherein
they have wallowed, it is too often the
case that ssch personsl and unfortunately
SO for the interest of productive indus
try) 90 to the opposite extreme in their
insane egoism. And like the deadly
upas they leave whitening blight upon
everything they touch. On this coast,
such has been the damning effect of
Kearneyism, followed by pseudo re-
formers who thus stab 20 the vltals every
noble and just cause which they so much
desire to champion. Such men perform
the same Office for our onward march as
did Benedict Arnold for our Revolu-
tionary fathers. Let ne beg of you, Mr..
Editor, use your ready pen to keep them
in the ranks; they are always unfit for
leaders. In our glorious cause we require
none but unselfsh patriots or high pri-
Yates. In our struggle tinsel and show
must give way to to active labor"