The Labor enquirer., 1886-06-19

How grand might his example and his
life-work not have been had he not been
chained to the anvil, the pIow or the
loom.
The agriculturalist can produce many
times more than enough for his own
wants and still we see the farmer leav-
ing the land because he cannot make a
living. The artisan IN any line pro-
duces hundredfold m re than enough
of his line of productions for his own
wants, and still he is obliged to keep up
the treadmill life of eXertion to procure
bread.
The coal miner can individually pro-
duce coal enough to warm a small town,
and still all he gets for his hard, danger
GUS and unhealthy work is just enough
to keep him going from day to day. And
so it is in every line of productive indus
try the producer always has the ability
to create more of the material necessar-
les than he can possibly want or con-
sumo.
Previous to the invention and INTRO
duction of machines which enable man
to produce still greater quantity of the
necessaries, he was able to more than
supply all lis needs. The advent of
machinery has been marx ed by still
greater increase in the power to produce
wealth, and still, we have the seemingly
inexplainable paradox of man becoming
lower in the scale of independence and
worldly comfort according as he became
enabled to produce wealth in greater
abundance.
The cause that produces this effect is
not hidden to any ordinary mind for it is
easy to find if we look around US and
take notice of the vast army Of human
beings there who are doing nothing, or,
if engaged at some stated calling, the
results of their endeavors are of no ben
eft, if not direct injury to their fellow
men.
AS one instance of this kind let US
look at the vast horde of LAWYERS who
ostensibly are here for the purpose of
explaining the law and calculating
points connected Herewith, the secur-
ing justice to men, etc.
If lawyers engaged themselves in the
legitimate duties and practice of the law
proper they might be Of some benefit to
mankind. but under the guise of practic-
ing the law there are gathered hundreds
of thousands of men who are not only
drones and dead-weights on the workers
but they are also an aggregation of men
whose adroitness in echeming, craft and
cunning cannot be equaled by any other
class in the ranks of those who will not
work.
The very names of lawyer and Judge
are synonymous with injustice, venality
and prostitution. Walking the streets
of Denver can be seen several we'll
known men who, were they not pos
sessed of plenty of money, with which
they purchased Judge, lawyers and jury,
would to-day be lying in murderers
graves. Thus we see that the lawyers
are not alone drones and dead Weights
on the producer, but their so-called work
is an injury to mankind. l might call to
your minds the name Of a man in our
own community whose craft and cum
ming has earned for him the name of a
''g' eat criminal lawyer" How has he
become possessed of the great wealth
which he owns? What return has he
made to society for that wealth?
He, in return for this wealth he pos
sesses, has used the splendi genius with
which God has endowed him, to shield
and protect from punishment thieves,
forgers murderers and all criminals who
are possessed of money.
His WORK in the main is positive in
jury to mankind, as he is nearly always
engaged in defending" some vile crimi-
nal who has money enough to secure Lis
freedom and immunity from punish
nent. This criminal lawyer gets paid
more money (that is, the murderers and
thieves divide the 'swag" with him) for
his work" during year than fifty men
who clean up our streets and do some
thing to benefit their felIow-men.
His work" renders human life very
insecure, as the man contemplating MUIR
der is made bolder to commit the crime
when he knows that punishment is
measured by mans poverty and con-
seQuent inability to secure ''the great
criminal lawyer"
The great criminal lawyer, who does
nothing but undermine the temple of
justice, becomes possessed of more
wealth than a score of men who labor
industriously and produce wheat enough |
to make bread for thousands.
Our whole judicial system is made up
Of and run by set of pandering parasites
who are held together by the cohesive
power Of roguerY, lascality and red-tape-
ism.
The workinsman supports this whole
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