The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-07-24

mariners in an bound sea, going no one
knows whittier; and he who usurps more
than his share of the common stock is a
man of treason, stratagem and spoils.
Nor let us delude ourselves that our des-
| tiny is so potent that some mighty power
will watch it with care; for there are
worlds, and worlds, and worlds, compared
with the vastness and magnitude of which
we are but an insignificant atom; q grain
of sand, lost in the infinity of space.
| This is neither time nor place to state
why think that the Knights of Labor are
an organization superior to any other soci-
| ETY. of the kind, and that their existance is
possible to-day only in a country, like
| America, of free institutions and universal
| education. do not profess to any great
admiration of the philosophy of the Declar-
alton of Independence; but must say that
the document which has made the most
down-trodden assert his equality to any
man in the world was not written in valn
For he who has begun to rightly esteem
! himself is but one step before he shall be
| esteemed by others.
If anv man shall ask me what I had
found to be the highest thing in human life,
1 will not direct him to Westminster or
Washington, to the Liverpool docks or the
Stock Exchange; to the Tai Mahal or st.
Paul's: but will tell him that the last term
America
know the apes and scribes of New York
will sneer But let them. This world is
not of the proud and mighty. Life is but
a long drawn yearning of beings In stratg-
gle, and the "fittest to survive have always
been the down-trodden.
John Swinton from your land of hopes
am going to land Of despair. 1 go
where injustice has become a Flaw of
1al Low
conceived in the apathy of man towards
man, and preached in the hot-haste pursuit
of self. There selfshness tramples over
the breasts of the meek, with charter
from civilization and a sanction from
Christianity. / have the fullest respect for
the faiths of all men, and it is only with
sham faith that have any quarrel The
man who thinks India can be saved by the
mere word of Christ, without His deeds, is
a fool He who breaches the gospel of
railways and telegraphs, and other ire
sources of civilization" without any out
flow of the soul, is a designing knave.
While on the Atlantic, could not but
muse that the silver foam ON its blue satin,
as it PLAYED with the sunbeams against the
gliding ship, was less deceptive far than the
smiling hypocrisy of the thing they call
civilization" nor did its turgid waves
hide beneath them trials and anguish like
tice of man toQnan.
If Christ were to-day to make a survey
of the world that processes His name, and
marked the iniquities committed with the
connivance of His church, that sorrow
fuller still, and the bleeding heart would
bleed again. .r-.
But to me the way is clear. I go back
to India with the conviction that in the
workingmen of the world lies our only
I'M IL %la
self-same gospel of bread for hunger before
salvation for the soul.
Patriotism and brotherhood are ideas un-
intelligible to me, and care not who brings
us the real tidings of joy. l have learned
that what is good for India is good for the
world, and what is good for the world is
good for India, for ''an injury to one is
the concern of all.
This gospel of the Knights of Labor,
then, will be preached in India, and their
talisman of org glnization will yet revivfy
that land. Combine as one' will be the
watchword. Combine-till oppression and
falsehood are peeled off like the skin from
a serpent. COmbine-till parasites and ex-
crescences drop down dead. Com6ipe-till
life appears like garden in bloom. Ma
lures word to her atoms is combine.
Let man cry to man all over the world,
Combine"
and the West on either side of me, with the
wonder-wrought sky above my head and
the ocean of mysteries beneath my feet, let
me earnestly pray that the first product of
the contact af Afaeivilizations of the East
and the we MhF not prove an unworthy
child.
Ny sacred thread descended from Brah-
ma, which many a missionary had begged
for in vain, was deposited at the feet of
IL. ~ II opka
based on injustice, only when could enter
the one righteous state of the unity of man.
They are fools who cry that this organiza-
ton of labor is a gospel of destruction. 1t
is message pre-eminently of peace, not of
the sword. In these days, when the world
is distracted between a hundred thousand
warning interests, it is the only force that
is girdling all mankind with a spiritual
cable, SO that one touch of nature at any
point shall make the whole world kin.
To be sure it will have clashes with Claw
and@ order;' but only when your claws"
are but the scribbling infamy. of servile
Judges who quake before the emblems of
power, and trample in wantonness over the
helplessness of the weak.
Once more, then, thanks to the knights
of Labor of America and the organized
workingmen of the world. To me the
world is no longer stumbling block. The
present has lost it's terrors, and the future
it's uncertainties. For men may come and
men may go, but the work of worldwide
organization will go on, on forever.
shall not say farewell. Linked with
the past, looking toward future, animated
with the spirits of the East and the West,
wherever go drag with me lengthen-
ing chain. To America, above all, I am
bound forever; for, if in India 1 was born,
in America I was born again.
AMRITA LAL Roy.
ANY man who Joins the labor movement