Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-11

Sa8es ana seorsI
scene OF more gloomy wretobedness
could hardly be conceived. From thu
blue mirror OF the Ontario to the snrf
beaten shores Of the Mexican gulf; from
Maine to California, 1t is one sad, sick.
ening scene, and succession OF strikes.
lockouts, chronic poverty and periodic
starvation. Here Il is helpless hunger
struggling with monopoly's millions, and ?
there 1t Is starving savagery confronting
ruthless repression; the shock of bomb
and bullet sad but emphatic reminder
mat we are not much ahead Of the Other
animals as ye' Force Is the
only argument Of animals; rea-
son aud justice are the methods
OF men. Sullen discomfort is deepening
into the bitterness Of desperation, indiffer-
ent alike to life or death. A million Of crea-
lures who should be men, are tramping /
over the country like hungry wolves,
many lost to all feeling OF manhood, de- |
cency, and self-respect; aimess, home /
less and hopeless, Millions more In the /
city slums, sunk IN squalld misery AVID |
rotting in filth and privation.
Here women are selling themselves for |
the means of existence, and there factory
children are forieiting half their natural |
lives for the sake Of toiling painfully the |
other half. Millions wearing out their |
unfortunate lives In ceaseless, hopeless
struggle for mere animal existence, their
youth without education, their manhood
/, without respect, their old age without
reverence, life a crushing burden, exist
ence a continual curse, the grave their
only hope.
, Who are responsible Tor this disgrace.
, tul condition. For making our fair land
| nanAar priann. hnnGa for In ~
, our people9 The voters Of the country.
On their heads rest the guilt, the blood
OF the victims driven TO death through
t privation, suicide, misery, murder aud
Q madness. They assume the responsible
ty before God and man OF making the
laws on which depend the hopes, the
G happiness, the lives OF 10000, 900 human
s beings, and are morally responsible for
Q the results. Vicious, venal, villainous
S legislation has brought our country to It's
: present deplorable condition; that legls-
' latlon was based upon and the
: product OF ignorance. Ignorance
: is the primal cause. Ignorance"
a says Shakespeare, sis the curse of God
S knowledgeis the wing by which we fly to
+ heaven" Ignorance is and has been the
curse of humanity 1t Is the basic cause
d Of all evils which ailllct this republic,
o and all the miseries the people endure.
Go ask the voters, the masses, why labor
q does not receive its lust reward? Whv
h those who toll the hardest are generally
a the poorest2 WHY per cent. of the peo-
/. Die own one.half of the wealth Of the
country, while one-half OF Americas free.
|. born citizens are practically paupers?
"a Whv I'M The last twenty wears twenty per.
lie sons amassed S750,000,000, while three.
! fourths of their fellow citizens are not O
month ahead of starvation? How much
Re does each worker on an average add To
l. agprepate wealth OF the country each
l. YEAR, How much does each on an aver
epe receive? WHY, according TO the last
10 census. although during the preceding
:. decade the wealth of the country IN
creased from sol .0O0. 900 600 to $4,000,
o00. 600. vet the average annual wages o.
the workinrman fell one-fourthl Though
ne wealth increased more rapidly than popu
r lation, vet pauperism increased NOR,
e. rapidly than either. Why those period,
I'd nantes This chrome poyertyY Nine on
er If Ton cannot teil-two ont OF three hay,
ed MOI even nm opinion beyon,
If some naiiatlye patchwork. Tnev yot
is wear after year in the same haz
he nnca,ta or absolute ignorance, of th
tie vital issnes a ffecting their welfare. The
raiso come no-tv cTv under some vaau
aneraItiesLelleSed principles--aud las
themee1ves into an artificial frenzy Of pas
of SION vicIonsness and yituueration. Thi
OK nanrdarons medley OF Ignorance. preiu
G. dice and follv is enacted regularly yes
IN afterveor while humanity ia cruci1ed, tor
ha tnred and degraded by its fatal operations
~ Eron, The seething cess-pool Of the SO
" caIJad noIitics and like scIlm Heating /
no tho surface are evolved and elected lepls
r i tt whose highest eoncentionof ofllcIg
io dntu 10 70 fnrther the interests of self an
n nor,v - Observation-Disclosures who know n
p rnore 30 noltticaI and economic principle
, horo - no Voters VINO elected then
e o,,a" 10th serenelv unconsciou
',aN ,he o,ytnI resnonsibility the
or ossr,na tho fate of millions depen,
he aot an thor action ,sFools rus
tly vnS ha,o onae,s taar IN tread . Murde,
or ~ - ssoct SSor. than murderers IN fac
90 W. :" ~, riotersS Thev NH but con
W Wy 49,. S,as tew The voters murd,
on palasreg ond worse Than murder mi
ems t sno Tpa mo T,oh nav strike 10 XIII hut
ere i Sss .ha Ta i0y ni d,snatch Ignora,