The Labor enquirer., 1886-12-25
The Conclusions Drawn From
1t by Reynolds Great
Newspaper.
Respects to the Capitalist Press.
Bits of English HistOri-
cal Precedent.
News to "0pulent sheep.Shearers''
on Condolences in Socialism
and "H0ly Wrtt.o
Reynolds Newspaper.

Reynolds Newspaper.
The magnificent Socialist demonstra'
ton in Trafalgar square last Sunday
marks an epoc,- in industrial develop.
ment. Nothing could exceed the splen-
did discipline of the vast assemblage
estimated at 10000, which filled to
overdowing the noblest urban area in
the world.
The represslve police preparation OF
Sir Charles Warren were supremely ri
diculous, for two reasons. First, they
were not needed, because the people
were fully prepared to act as their own
police. ANY thief, caught in the act,
would have run very fair chance of
being ducked id the fountains. The
workers we're in no humor to be di-
verted from their purpose either by
thieves or policemen. Secondly, had
the serried ranks Of the Socialists ha |
anv intention of trying conclusions with
the police, assuredly there was no force
either in the square or its appro aches
which they could not readily have
swept before them like chaff before the
wind. In point of fact, the encomiums
which our purblind contemporaries of
the press have been heaping 80 lavishly
on the police ought for the most part to
have been bestowed on the Socialists.
1t was the forbesrance of the latter
which really made life and property as
secure in the West end of London as if
no such vast concourse of suffering hu
manity mad been convened on it 8 out
skirts.
But 1t is not given to the capitalist
press of London or the provinces to dis
Germ the signs of the times. 1t was
noted by several of the speakers and
let us remark here that the speaking
was generally of very high order-that
not single newspaper except REYNOLDS
and Justice had done justice to the cause
Of the unemployed and of the impending
Social Revolution; but that is no cause
for Encouragement. We have so often
stood absolutely alone during the past
forty wears in the advocacy of the rights
Of the despised and plundered workers,
that if it were by any chance to be
otherwise, we should be astonished be-
yond measure. We have been so long
accustomed to be held up as a wicked
sapper and miner of all that is respect
able aud of good report that if society"
were in any way to bestow its benedic-
tons oD us, we should be disposed to Law
to heart the profound philosophy of
Christ, Beware ye when all men speak
well of you, for 80 did they of the false
prophets that were before you"
And false prophets the capitalist jour-
nails are and must be, They are run"
for profit, and not for truth. They are
written by mercenary sCribes whose
sole cue is to pander to the prejudices
Of the advertising, that is to say, the
plundering commercial classes. Indeed.
50 thoroughly corrupt and venal is the
press of this country, that is next to i'm
possible for an honest journalist or Jour
nal to survive for many years. Next to
a state paid priesthood, capitalis.- paid
press is the most ingenious instrument
ever forged by Satan for the enslave-
ment of mankind, This being so, it is
the bounden duty of "the masses" re-
entessly to boycott the cozenlng, mind
perverting organs of the classes"
These blind leaders of the blind pooh
pooh the Social Democratic move ment,
and ridicule Socialist tenets. But they
we're equally confident that the French
king, Louis Philippe, was invulnerable
when his throne was not worth weeks
purchase. They hailed with enthus-
.asm, during The civil war. Mr.. Glad
stones foolish, and, indeed. wicked, an
uouncement that Jefferson Davis had
founded an army, had founded navy,
and was about to found nation" while
We were weekly proclaiming to the
world the inevitable suppression of the
slave holding rebellion.
Similarly We warm the oligarchV now
that Social Democracy is not the weak,
wanton thing which they foolishly rep
resent Socialism is in the air, and our
professors of the dismal science" can
Nc more suppress its advocates than
could popes and cardinals stamp out the
doctrines OF Protestanism.
Indeed, it is fact of no small slgnlh-
cance that an excellent compendium OF
Nocialiet doctrines could be compiled
from the Old and the New Testament.
LAnd-grabbers, interest.mongers, profit
mongers, and rich men" generally, are
the objects of endless scriptural lnvec'
llyes and We are pleased to note that
sprnkling at least of the Anglican clergy
are NOW coming before the public In the
character of Christian Socialists. The
early church and early Christian fathers,
whose precepts and practice both ortho
dox Catholics and orthodox Protestane
profess to emulate, we're notorlously
Communistic. Let US quote q few sen
tenCes from the fathers: