The Labor enquirer., 1886-11-20
Modern Imitation Of the An
cient in Which Brutality
is Magnifled.
Pontius Gary Lacks the Strength
10 Wash the Blood
from His Hands. -ss-sii,.-
Placing the Crime Upon the Back Of
the Dual Scapegoat Of the
Money Alistocracx.
Translated for The Enquirer from 'tDer
Arme Teufsl." Of Detroit, by Albert Mar.

Translated for The ENQUIRER from .Der
Arme Teufsl." Of Detroit, by Albert Mar
shall. A.sa s7
i have often said "Do not despise
| the bible r That is book wherein the
U heart and soul of mani tbosesde de6snfand,
desponding elements Of human nature
reflect themselves again and again, as is
SO graphically portrayed in Dante's "In-
ferno" and Shakespeare's tragedies. In
the bible is sounded the ever recurring
centennial sound of the yearnlng desire
of humanity and though the old tesla
ment is book of kings, the new testa-
ment is book of Revolutions.
| Whether we regard the eight con-
victed men in Chicago as the author.
lied mediators and representatives Of a
regenerated world, or whether We recog.
nize them as thesaxpeaentsof a misun-
derstood idea of righteousness-the
thought ever reverts to Him-of whom
tho four evangelists are quite unani-
nous in their fecords--of the remark
able trials and prosecutions of that jew
ish youth, who laid claim to heaven, and
earth-named Jesus Christ.
| What Jesus preached was complete
Anarchy; although He recon mended
passive submission to the government,
nevertheless in all His words and deeds
can be observed a supreme contempt
and ignoring of all worldly authority;
His entire teachings are permeated with
the central idea, that there is but one
Father for us all, we haYe but one Mas
ter in heaven; and when Jesus spoke
the grand word: II and my Father are
one," he declared himself the represen.
tatlve and personifcation of the An
archist movement, against which the
then entire civilized world was directed.
Yet more vehement and relentless He
demolished the state religion and its ex-
Founders with such caustic and bitter
denunciations, that to this dav, we bor-
row the expressions of this Jewish
youth, with which to pillory hvpocrscy,
lip religion and an arrogant and over
weaving church hierarchy. So it had to
be ordained that Jesus must die, not
simply because he was a "Revolutionist"
and taught doctrines menacing Rome's
"lega" prerogatives, but because He was
condemned by the high priests who had
held council lover Jesus that they
might kill him."
| Did not the degenerated and hypo-
critical money bag religion OF to-day sit
in judgment on the sinners" of Chi
cago7 On that jury were not the Phar-
isees represented. none else but the
Sadducees, the free-thinkers of the In
gersoll stripe, who reject immortality, be-
cause it is more convenient to them
who in rejecting immortality suppress
every ideal aspiration, and whose only
ambition is to satisfy their voraeious
maws, and to replendish their capacious
pocket?
When Judas saw that Jesus was con-
demned to, death. his conscience re-
preached him for what be had done
he wanted to make restitution, Offering
to refund the blood-money, and be went
out and hanged hmself but our Ju-
dases, it is to be regretted, have not his
sense of honor and how often do we not
meet in our days the cowardly, craven
Peter, who probably, in secret. wept Bit
terly, but when before the multitude,
denounced and denied Jesus, saying:
Il know not this man."
Does not the pious and loyal mob ap-
Jeal to our country spcare-takers Give
US Barabas," pardon robbers and MUIR
derers, as many as you wish, but these
men must die? Have we not eight men
in Chicago on par with the Son Of
Mankind, when charged with dessemi-
mating Socialism, Communism and An
archy and preaching Revolution, an
swered with the words: you say 1t I"
Finally the judge, Mr.. Gary, is un-
doubtedlv good Christian, and under
stands the new testament thoroughly +;
must not the similarity of his position
with that of his colleague Pontius Plate,
of 1000 wears ago, loom up before his
purblind vision? After Plate had pro.
nounced his sentence, he took some
water and washed his hands before the
people and sboke: II am innocent of
the blood of the righteous" That was
noble acknowledgment of his owD weak
ness-but Judge Gary preferred to re-
press the washing of hands and making
the acknowledgements that his prede.
cessor had made, and thereby relieve
his conscience of an insuferabls ncu-
bus. When he pronounced that sen.
tence he keenly felt Its crying injustice,
as it completely broke him down, his
eyes became suffused in tears and a
cold, clammy faintness embraced his
brain.
Where was the guilt in Jerusalem
Was 1t the man whose head was covered
with wounds and blood-who wher
scourged and tortured BY His enemies,
pleaded with that broad m gnanimity: :
Gather forgive them thev know not
hat they do" or was it moreover in that
: furious church rabble an Rome's proud
projects who assumed the responsibility
of an act of outraged justice, simply be.
cause it was sanctioned by public opin'
, ion"
i Continued o second psss,l
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