Workmen's advocate., 1886-11-21

 shoulder ru shoulder with their lrothrr, in the late election in New ork. -i i.u,
 It k, of conrso, to the disconnected Wagr.wurkpr> that NurialiNt, can appeal with the greatest chance of success, To them they can say;
 "Luok the future confidently in the face, The golden age of which poets have sung hl, proved a cruel illusion cruel, for as long as it lasted, 1t served a~ the greatest stmbling-hlork tu ynur uu pruvrmcut. In exchange for that WlII-o- the-Wlep we give you another, Il reaI Gullru Age, at whose threshold you stand. If you do not enter into it, your children may,' II k to the Wagc-cla~s that the rmkc,t injustice k being done. 1 To lay bare that injustice k, first of all, the mission of Socialism, and as Carlyle says; "Ilmger nakrdnr,S, death even, may bo borne somctm~ with cheerful ness, hut injustice k juSupportabc to all men
 To tine thoughtrul among our small middh-mcn it ought tu he easy enough tu prove the Socialist State their sole refuge from the cares and troubles that now heset them.
 Ii will not take many years. before the | eyes of farmers will be opened to the fact that the vast majority of them must l necessarily become tcnant-iannrr, Wnd 1 their farms gohhrd up by the rich under l q system of unrestricted competition. | Then we Umduuhlrdly can convince some | that Socialism i, the only system that ! can scrurca civilized If" to their d,- 1 ecendanto.
 And even to many in lhe professions we can with proprirty appeal Indeed, l as we already have sJd, many, if mol l most of our literary men, lawyers. phY- sician,, journalists, aud last. though not 1 least, tcNrhorSarc among the disinherted. l Only those at the top most of whom are 1 in one way or another the rctancrS of our money -hags-have any motive tu side with the Established Order. Of course, ali aspiring young professional men start ont with great expectations; bnt what gri"vous disappointment does life prove to the great majority of them Before they reach middle age they will consider il the summit of succeS if they l can secure decent Livelihood. Most of them will fail lamentably even in that To my personal knowledge hundreds of talented persons of that class now live a most precarious existence. and are glad to sleep at night on the lounge in the office of some more successful brother, and dc not know for certain whether they will have meal the next day. Such a man $ refinement has become his curse.
 To such men the Coming Revolution should be just as welcome as to any me ChAnir or common IaborCr How their talents would unfold themselves and their energies be reused under that in spring emulation which the New Order will inaugurate Talent, genius and in tcllert will in our Commonwealth have their due influence. what they never had before.
 Neither ought it to be very difficult to ! convince such women who take any in tpreAt in public and labor for the cleNa tion of their sex that no lasting benefit will be conferred either on Society or their sisters by making women into sec ond-rate men, and very, very little bene- it by their obtaining the suffrage in the present state of things; while it is very much to ha apprrhonded that when p0Iit- ical rights are minced twice as much again as they already are, they will seem
 
 Socialism is evidently far more capable of eIrvating the female sex both by en- nobling the men and by enabling women themselves to assert their dignity.
 And everywhere in all conditions of life there are thoughtful, generous youths : who cannot keep wondering al the mani festIy unjust arrangements of this world. , Youths who cannot hplp asking why SO many whose work k only nominal should live i'll -peudnr, while those whose daily r tOil produces all that makes existence en- joyabIc and even possible have such a hard struggle for life. Youths. who then dream of Impossible "rentIics and. ; like Thomas More in his "Utupia, con = struct castles in the air. Youths who by and by, WhcI. they have been chilled . by contact with the cold rca!itir7 of life under this Established Order. will come to look back on these dreams a5 mere - fooIishueas
 | An, youths. "when those phantom, { fade, some portions of your better natur, will die within you, too!'
 Might wt not expect that the eyes of such youths and even of mature men who have had such dreams dtd pi for. gptra Hrnt-to kindIc with enthusiasm, and their hearts to beat quicker upon learning that many of their fellows art bent with all their energies on making glorious realities out of those dreams - AS Novalis says; My belief has gained , infinitely to me from the moment any other human hring has begun to believe D the same. Why then. might We moi l expect many of such men to throw them
 selves into thlS movement of ollr- n.
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 A RFLIARL f WITNESS.