The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-06

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tance to the. trade unions or the Kniehtl
T Of Labor
What valiant belly-crawlers
None ofthe Parsons, Spies & Co. has
ever asked tho wealthy to disgorae.
They ask the Just fruits Of the wealth
they produce, and an equal share oi
mother earth for each and all without
usury. Then the gorged will have no
use for theirihoard. We supposed the
Tocsin was edited in the interest Of
labor. Ring the alarm for whom? The
capitalist, to tell him that they will
stand firm bv his guns when the true
friends of labor are on the march. We
must infer from such gush that the cry
to capital and the boss Isl: "Giye us
plenty Of work and we will follow YOU
blindly wherever you Co."
They say in actions If not in words :
"Let the mill grind out as much sorrow,
misery, pauperism and crime as the
world can hold so long as we are well
fed and clothed" Conservative labor
organizations are like SO many ants try-
ing to demolish mountain. Their OBJ
1ect is to uphold a standard of wages,
with distant hope that something bet
ter will come, which never can come
with the present appliance of machinery
and the inventions and improvements
that are being made. E
Shortening the hours of labor is one
very desirable issue, but many ills must
be removed before it can be practically
applied. a* T.. --- -.-.
Every paper that processes the interest
of the toilers. that would sound the key
note. that would ring the tocsln, must be
Socialist; if it is not Socialist it is a
bastard for Socialism possesses thekey
note of equal liberty and social equality
for all, with higher standard of intel
lect, seIf-respect and less law. For intel
ligence can control ignorance, but intel
lect cannot control lntellect-they are
equal. For preaching such a creed,
anathemas and thunderbolts are hurled
at men with advanced ideas by the par
asites who fatten upon the vitals of
labor.
What does Socialism propose to rem.
edy ? It proposes to abolish almshouses,
where the skins of the poor are tanned
for mementoes for college students, and
prisons, where people are made more
brutal by their corrupt keepers
soldiers orphan schools, and kindred
charity ulcers for the ignorant poor,
that feeds greed and fosters crime re.
formatory institutions for children who
are farmed out to contractors to make
cheap rubbish with which the markets
are flooded and working people cheated.
A civilization that makes prisons for
children possible is rotten to the core,
1t is from this accursed moral depravity
that Socialism will emancipate the
world.
The word Anarchy can he construed
to represent manv phases, according to
the ingenuity and sympathies of the
linguist. In the interest of the produc-
ing class it means opposition to oppres-
sive laws and their right to own them
selves. This new school of religion is
| laid at the door of the German race
Well, why not? Wherever they have
emigrated among the races of the earth
they have developed industry, intel
lect and practical integrity, according to
the age in hich they lived. Wherever
the Germans are found there is founC
thrift and progress, and to day they are
the martyrs and pioneers of New Re
public. Not until government, till Law
and rule by right of might was estab'
lished,
Did man first pen his fellow men,
Like UTuU6S, WlUulu all iron u6u.
To sustain arrogant authority and
crippled creeds, the usurpation of unlaw.
full possessions and for malignant hate,
has man set his foot upon thel neck Of
his brother. In this, as in all else, the
march of time repeats itself- The blind
populace shouted for the martyrs blood
then as they do to-day, when the enemy
whose interest it is to stave off the
storm tells them they are not ready fol
the new religion. No; but they are
always ready to be snubbed, badgered
and dictated to, like children, by theil
would be superlors. The wealth pro
ducers-the granite rock of universe
development--are alternately caloled
and abused and always will be while
they can be bought with taffy.
The right of men to better themselves
is undlsputed, in all lawful ways, in in
genlous sop thrown to working people
and the we'll fed, well paid, fat organiza.
tions take it up and shout it along the
line to the intense delight of their mas
ters who know that law means oppres
sion and order means submission
They will subvert and prostitute a
greedy government into a guarantee of
all the strength and power of the army
to enforce humble obedience to their
methods of law and order. Yet with all
their lying sophisty and thin ble.rigging
games, now you see it and now you
don't, the work of disintegration goes
on. No amount of fraud can for any