The Labor enquirer., 1886-12-18
the satisfaction of passions the most ex.
ecrable, for handful of sluggards.


| Orderl it is the deprivirg thos,
nine-tenths of every condition necessary
/, to healthy life, and the rational devel
topment of the faculties; the reducins
inine-tenths of humanity to the level o
beasts of burden living from day to day
without ever daring to think of the joys
which have been for man bv scientific
study, and the creations of the artistic
mind. Look you, that is order.
Order! tits misery and famine &C
cepted as the normal condition of soci
ety. 1t is the Irish peasant dying ol
hunger; it is the peasants of a third. oi
Russia diving of diphtheria, of typhus, O
starvation, in the midst of piles of wheat
destined for the stranger it is the people
of Italy reduced to abandonmentof Of theil
fertile fields and tramping through Eu
rope on the hunt for a job at tunne
driving, by which subsistence may be
obtained for some months at the risk oi
being crushed to death; it is the sol
torn from the peasant to raise cattle for
the glutting of the rich; it is the, soil
allowed to fallow rather than that il
should be restored to him who asks nc
greater boon than leave to till it.
Order! it is woman selling herself to
rear her children it is the child com.
PEELED to factory imprisonment, or death
from want of food it is the workman
lowered to the level of a machine.
Order 1t is the apparition of the work.
ingman in insurrection at the doors Of
the rich-the apparition of the people
in insurrection at the rulers gates.
Order it is minority, the lowest in
the social scale, raised to the seats oil
government, and thereby cha rglng itself
upon the majority, and bringing up its
children to succeed in its Offices, with
the view of maintaining the same privi-
leges by intrigue, by corruption, by
lOrCe, OY massacre.
Order! it is the everlasting war of
man with man, craft with craft, class
with class, nation with nation it is the
cannon which never ceases growing
throughout the whole of Europe; it is
the laving maste of plains, the sacrifice
of whole generations upon the field Of
battle; the destruction in single yea:
of the riches accumulated by ages OF
rugged toll.
Order it is slavery, the lettering Of
human thought, the abasement of the
human race, maintained by sword and
lash it is sudden death from the fire
damp, slow death by burial, hundreds OF
miners torn to pieces or entombed yearly
through their masters greed, and mitra-
leused, chased at the point of tie bayo-
net. the moment they dare to complain.
Order, in a word, Is the drowning in
blood of the Paris Commune. 1t is the
death of 0,000 men, women and chil-
dren torn to shreds by shells, mira
leused, buried in quick lime under the
Paris pavements. 1t is the fate of the
youth of Russia, walled up in prisons,
and buried IN the SHOWS of Siberia, the
best, the purest, the most devoted OF
the Representatives of whom perish by
the hangman's rope.
Look You that is order.
And disorder-what is it they call dis
order2 1t is the uprising of the people
against this ignoble order, the people
bursting its chains, overthrowing all OBJ
stacles and marching toward better
future. 1t is whatever humanity has
most glorious in it's history.
1t is the revolt Of thought upon the
eve Of revolutions: it is the upsetting OF
| hvpotheses that have been hallowed by
the stagnation of preceding ages; it is
the throwing the gates open to whole
food of new ideas and bold discoveries
it Is the solution of the problems of sci
ence.
Disorder it is the abolition of ancient
slavery it is the insurrection of the
Communes, the abolition of feudal serf
dom, the effort to abolish economic serf-
dom.
Disorder it is the insurrection of the
peasants rising against priest and mas
ter, firing mansions to make room for
cottages, emerging from their dens to
take their place in the sun it ls France
abolishing royalty, and dealing serfdom
fatal blow throughout the whole oI
Western Europe.
DisorderI it is 1913 making kings
tremble, and proclaiming the right tc
labor it is the people of Paris fighting
for new idea, and while succumblng to
massacre, bequeathing tn huma ily the
idea of free commune. and opening up
a road to th at revolution whose approach
we already feel, and whose name will b'
the Socia Revolution.
Disorder-what they call disorder-is
those epHchs during which whole gen
erations carry on an unceasing conhtct
and sacrifice themselves to prepare lol
humanity better existence, by freeins
it from the slavery of the past. 1t Ii
those epochs in which the genius Of the
people has free play, and makes in {
few years gigantic strides, lacking which
mankind would have remained in their
condition of ancient slavery, grovelini
and degraded in misery.
Disorder it is the birth Of the fines
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