The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02

which they have made upon labor, or in
the exchange Of its products it is the
creators Of those products who, by be-
ing indispe nsible, are the fittest to sur
vive.
A desperate may succee d for years in
evading all regulations, committing out
RACES of all sorts and he may think he
Is the fittest to live, until his illusion is
dispelled when some fine morning he
dies with his boots on. The society
pirate commits his depredahons unre-
strained by laws, or strictly in accord
ance with some, may think like the des-
perado, but It oniy requires change of
public opinion, and consequently the es-
tablishment of new order regulating
affairs between man and men, to show
him his error. i
The Inquisition prosecuted Galileo,
burned Bruno and thousands of others
for teaching theories contrary to the
established rules of the church, and al
though thes were not permitted to live
cut their natural lives the development
of the human intellect has shown that
they were the tittest to live, for their
doctrines are now accepted bv the hu-
man family. The early abolitionists
had also to endure many hardships, and
if slavery had been as we'll established
in the north as it was in the south it Is
doubtful if they would have been per-
mitted to live out their natural lives.
To day the money-bags may proclaim
that the so-called Chicago Anarchists
are not fit to live, while hirelings may
applaud, and misinformed public may
be Indifferent. But if the demands Of
those men were just, if they were COM
manded to disperse while they were
peaceful, if their chief crime is to have
written and talked not according to
fashion what truth their doctrines con-
tain will live, but the manner of execut-
ing them Git is to be hoped) will be diff
ferent from what it is said was their in
tentions.
In looking at the vegetable kingdom
it can be seen that it is only by contin-
ual efforts that the fttest plants survive,
that is, those which are necessary to sus-
tain the life of man. Let farmers quit
blowing their fields and wedding their
crops only two or three years, and fam
inc would prevail over the earth, at
though the seeds might be sown. TIE
noxioNs weeds would kill the grain, and
still the grain ls the tittest to survive.
If the toilers should ever realize-and
l think that day is coming-that they
are entitled to, and can just as well keep
the lions share of the wealth that they
create; that laws have no reason to ex-
ist unless they are administered in favor
of the greatest number; that they pos
sess within their own ranks all the nee
essary elements to frame just laws and
enforce them, then the palmy days of
the millionaire, the protected manufac-
turer, the monopolist, the politician who
has lost his soul, will be over.
Those who lean upon the institutions
of the past forget the transitory nature
Of all human works; thay count without
that latent force in the makeup of men
which leads them on and on to new en-
deavors. They cannot see chat the
genius of the eighteenth century, by
laying new inventions in the lap of cre-
alton, has virtually changed the social
order upon which those institutions were
built They think that the building of
broader circle, the framing of new laws,
means the destruction of all social order.
But government and social order are
born in the constitution of men, and
paper constitutions emanate from them.
Therefore, society cannot remain in a
chaotic state, but its laws must forever
be adapted to the need of men, for they
alone are Observation-Disclosures LIE
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