The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24

consequently would move slowly
The lecturer doubted that TIL
final issue between the wage slav'
owners and the slaves would hav'
peaceable termination.
In concluding his lecture Col
Kelso drew touching picture o
the slave times by telling of hi
having seen poor slave mothe
parted at the auction block from
her FIVE children; how brutal slav,
buyers compelled her, while stand
ing on the elevated auction block
to remove her garments and ex
pose her person in order that hel
good points" as valuable chat
tel might be exhibited; how the
human brutes in search of prop
erty in human flesh felt of the
limbs and joints of the body o.
that poor slave mother while hel
children joined their tears with
those of the mother as she stood
on the block. gcH figJft
THAT scene, witnessed away
back in those bygone years" said
the colonel, "made me, although
at the time identified with the in
stitution of slavery, hate it; and
vowed eternal hostility to the
cursed institutinn and consecrated
my services towards effecting its
destruction" That slavery went
down, but we have a worse form
existing at present, said the
speaker, in substance. He detailed
his experience in New York ten
ement; how he had climbed the
dingy heights of one of those hu-
man burrows, where the poor are
slowed away in little hole-like
rooms, and how he had found a
miserable poor, sick and destitute
sewing woman with herlittle dead
baby whose pinched face betok-
enen death by starvation. The
body was placed in the pauper's
cart and dumped in "potters'
field" And yet almost within a
stones throw of the scene of this
sorrowful tragedy the spires of a
hundred Christian churches pierce
the skies and hundred Christian
ministers preach to well-fed mill
ionaires, all careless and unmind-
full that within the shadow of their
costly spires their fellow creatures
we're dying from lack of food.
All these things are happening
in what we call this higher civil
ization." Manifestly there is some
thing wrong. The true economist
and scientific investigator will at
tempt to. discover the source of
the wrong; therefore let us as So
cialists and anarchists go to the
fountain-head of the evils of this
industrial system and let US be de-
termined to take our inalienable
rights and be men.
Following the address by Col.
Kelso came a short speech. by
Joseph Jacket on the Martyrs Of
To-day" The comrades feeling
reference to the labor agitators
who were killed by the police con-
spirators in Chicago on November
II, 1887, was warmly applauded
Mrs. Eta d. Kelso gave "The
Schoolmaster's Vision being a
rare composition which had its or
| igin and was conceived in the po'
etic brain of her husband, the
colonel. The lady displayed re-
markable elocutionary power and
gave the spirit as well as the word:
of the old and weared teacher
who, tired and worn, would des
pair but for the loving words be
slowed by those who have beer
lied up higher" by the kindly ole
teacher, who, cheered by thos'
kindly words, takes courage ant
resolves. .pr
-I will bravely toll on till the set Of my sun
And aAll at my post when my work Is al
done; tt
Some vict'ry for good will stiii try to win
Try to make the world better because nav
BEEN"
Mr.. Jacket sang a characte
song entitled THE Bagman," il
which he sang and acted the par
of the poor devil who realizes tha
the priests and bishops are para
sites who live on the credulity q