The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-10
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thought that these same men would
place snow sheds AL over the state OF
Kansas if they corld and charge ten
cents breath to the passers through.
Laboring men should work but eight
hours a day, half d day Saturday and
have Sunday to themselves. They
should have time to cultivate their
minds and develop their souls. Christ
would never have. made the req uire-
ments that he did unless he meant that
men should have time to fulfill them.
The railroads should be managed, for
under such system here would be no
strikes. According to the meaning of
the word as defined by Webster, and
Others who are authority, he said: u
am an out and out and out Socialist, "l-
though 1 have no sympathy whatever
with reviewers, bowie knives, dynamite,
g1npowder or bulldogs" He finished
, his discourse with grand peroration on
the golden rule, and compared it with
the iron chair that governs the people
to-day.
About dozen of our prominent Kan
sas ministers have begun in the same
planner to risk their livelihood for the
cause of the Master. The good cause is
booming in Kansas in every direction.
L great many heretofore monopolistic
papers, seeing in what direction things
are moving, have begun to publish col
rmn after column of fair reasoning on
Socialism and the coming Revolution
making com mparisons with other Revol1,
tions and discussing, not how we can
avoid it, but how can we let things turn
over as easy as possible. Never before
vas the subject 80 generally discussed by
all classes. At church sociables, prayer
meetings and bible classes | hear the
young people discussing "the future So
ciety," political economy and Socialism
with as much interest as they generally
talk about the latest styles or the last
progressive euchre party. The enthusi-
astic and religious young ladies take the
most radical views on the subject, be-
cause they are willing to speak what
they think, let it cost what it may, and
think that if we could place good liter
ature in the hands of about 10000 OF
themSwe would have about that many
more valiant soldiers for the truth. We
must remember that Moses Of the king s
household was the instrument used in
leading the Israelites from bondage.
Wendell Philips from the aristocraCy
Of Boston, with others of his kind, were
the fathers of abolition. Pierre Krapot-
kline, one of the foremost soldiers of bis
time, and Demereous Lisogub, the nil
lionaire, are fair specimens of the lead
ers of the present Russian Revolution,
ary movement, and | think that oul
cause will be successful in America
when our leaders and deliverers come
to our ranks through love, after careful
study and meditation, rather than
through their own selfish interests. A
man, desperate and furious at being op
pressed and abused, will make a good
fighter until he can better his condition
by going on the other side, but person
who comes to our ranks from a purely
unselfsh motive, when he could haYe
lived happier by staying where he was
a person who develops into Socials
without the aid OF a hungry stomach
has come to stay and can be depended
upon.
Let us-not always appeal to the ami
NAL in man, but to his higher nature
Let US appeal to his love for justice, hit
love for mankind and let US appeal tc
those who have had no opportunity tC
develop such faculties. The wage
slave who is satisfied with hog anC
hominy cannot appreciate his degrade
ton and how much of life he loses, az
can person who has had time to re
fleet upon these thingS We should
have missionaries scattered all through
the churches. We need a Moses to re
buke the miserly, and order the golden
calf destroyed. We need Jonah tc
exort the people to turn from theil
wicked ways and prepare for the des
truction of Ninevah. We need Pau
to speak to the horest and sincere among
them and show that who therefore W
ignorantlY worship, him declare l unto
you" WALTER W. VRooMAN.
BRUSSELS, April 1.-The government
will be obliged to ask parliament for 6
credit to indemnify persons whose prop
3rtv has been damaged or DESTROYED in