The Labor enquirer., 1886-04-24
DENVER CoLORAD SATURDAY 4,

his gold.pile, is adored and looked to to-
day by our society" as the highest per-
sonage in the realm.
He whose waole life has been one Of
greedy absorption of the result of other
mems toll; whose whole life is a chapter
of wrecks which he has made of mer
who came within his avaracious grasp
he, this unnatural cross between the hog
and the buzzard, is a claimant for the
title of an ambitious man. @
He knows that Socialism will destroy
what he calls his ambition; but Social.
ism will not destroy his ambition. as il
does not find any there to destroy. But
Socialism will kill swinishness, even
though in 80 doing the hog has to die to
attain that end. Oh !! ambition! What
detestable crimes are committed under
thy name! Under thy name monstrous
Shylock snatches the crust from the hand
of starving humanity, whose bleeding
breast has yielded up its tribute to the
merciless tyrant who claims his pound
of flesh and exacts it to the last.
Under the name of ambition men will
sink every feeling which makes man su.
perior to the brute. In the name of am.
bition men utilize the holy fame of love
to melt base gold and fashion out an
armor-plate to cover the human heart
and render it impervious to every gen.
erous impulse and impenetrable to every
thing but the sordid spear of the heart
less monsters who make gross, material
commodity out of the noblest attribute
mankind possesses.
Down on the lowest of the "bottoms"
know of woman whose house con-
tains none of the architectural features
that distinguish our bankers house on
Capitol hill. The inhabitants Of. the two
houses are dissimilar. On the hill the
inhabitants of the castle do nothing but
absorb the comforts and wealth they
never produced they play the drone in
the hive of human industry. They are
wealthy; they are am bilious. What is
the height of their ambition2 More
wealth
On the bottoms" the poor widow and
her little children work, each of them,
at honest labor, washing clothes, making
the " orld cleaner. They are actively
engaged doing their share In the busy
hiye of human industry. What ls the
height of the woman's ambition? To
educate her little ones and it is the at
tainment of that object to which she de-
votes her life and tolls over wash-tub
six days in the week.
The man on Capitol hill rolling in wealth
finds no object to excite his desires to
attain, but gross, material wealth. Greed
covers his heart as shield against every
impulse that does not bear a cash value.
The woman in the bottoms" strives to
better the world by raising her children
in such way that they will be able to
90 into the world and make it better by
their presence. The widowed washer.
woman of the bottoms" is possessed of
an honest and laudable ambition. The
pompous millionaire banker of the hill
is possessed of an ambition too, but it is
of the kind that is as selfish as it is un-
just.
The populations of our various "Capi
tol hills" in this country are growing
more and mere select and sparse. Amer
lean bottoms" population is on the In
crease and the dividing line that marks
the domain of poverty from affluence, is
assuming the shape of mountain chair
whose rugged, precipitous sides cannot
be scaled.
1t is the hope of every true Socialist
that this unnatural barrier shall be re-
moved and men taught to think and fee
tn at the same blood that courses in the
veins of the bottoms" washerwoman Ii
in the veins of the banker of Caplto
hill. J.J. q.