Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-12-29
HUMANITY.
BY T. II. GARSIDE.

dlltT Il higher anu DtlteT CONDITION Oh
existence, The tyranny of Charles the
Bold, the stern resistance of Client and
Berger, the. brilliant successes Of Philip
Won Arteveld in 1882, the abolition of
the feudal system, all these epochs are
developments of the progress of this
spirit. And this spirit has always been
at warfare with the strong powers of
the world. The mass of the human race
hai ever been struggling to hinder the
birth and growth of class on the one
hand, and yet creating and defending it
on the other. The barbarous Goths, by
the power of sword and flame, laid all
Europe to waste leaving in their track
as a forget-me-not, ruin; and desolation,
and worse still, governors, rulers whose
power was built by force and who held
the people in subsection by the same
means This is the principle by which
all power and distinction has primarily
been obtained. Labor was declared to
be the task of the herd, too contemplate
for the chivalry of the nations, it was
left to the heather Mohammed to set the
example and teach the nobility of toll.
History is cdrious text book We can
read with tears of Mary, Queen of Scots,
and of the amours of Charles VIII of
France. King Harry of England is
painted in mOnstrous colors, but it is
only here and there that we get a
glimpse of the artizan, the mechanic
and farmer. They made Kings, and
their creations buried them in oblivion.
Munzer is beanded as a wild fanatic, but
even patient Miner and honest Mosheim
tell us little of the causes which led to
his instruction. Men have forgotten
the true object of life in the jealous,
egotistic race for personal satisfaction;
conditions of life are rarely taken into
consideration; the human race is taken
to be battlefield in which the most
cunning rules lhe simple for his own
purposes, RefGd mers and reforms have
been agitating men for ages, Luther
assailed the bigtr and superstition of
Romanism, and s,unded Professionalism,
which evinces thesame peculiarly char
liable virtues. But in all the end of life
has been distorted and persistently set
aside Kings have laid claim to the pro-
lection of the people, have pleaded di-
vine rights, have shielded themselves
behind the usual hiding place of usurpers;
the church has fought for the people yet
acquired only gain hor herself the claims
of man have been forgotten IN the greed
of men. Men cannpt continue to live in
condition of sutjecton, poverty and
fear without there being inflicted upon
the immediate generations following a
degenerate mental and moral status; it
is the natural effect of servitude. One
cannot read Shakespeare without seeing
this on every page, in almost every char
acter. The condition of the Russian
peasantry, physically considered, is ri
vailed by their servility mentally; they
scarcely dare to think; to express an
opinion contrarT to the powers that be
is amongst the nselves sacrilege. Men
are born, grow up, marry, beget chill
| dren and die generations following go
| on the same tack, always the same
routine, Ambition and special faculty
for any branch of learning is only de-
veloped if chance introduces some kind
patron; the bright hopes of a young
man or woman are lost in the fog of
hopeless heIplessness. Sly, crafty cum
ming may make one farm boy states
man, but it is by pandering to passion,
expressing his fellows and choking his
own nature. BeacOnsfield makes Vivian
Grey to have this motto as his rule of
| conduct: "a smile for a friend and a
sneer for the world all things, all men
sacrificed to self interest This is the
philosophy of success with present day
| humanity. Despair is the end of hope
ha Iot tIa
| Virtue and honor are commodities to be
used when convenient, never to intrude.
When the struggle becomes too severe,
and the last card is played, life is run,
| decay of nature results in death, decay
of opportunity means decay of hope;
result, death. The wall of the suicide
is but an echo of the exultation of the
strong who has conquered where the
other lost, just as the jackall yelps in
| glee over some new victim found. The
| hymns of peace is in strange discord
with the 'song of the shirt What
| hope for better condition of morality !?
| What cure for drunkenness Education.
pictures, public reading rooms. Give
| the people some ideal to look to. True,
but It's hard TO look beyond the gloom
| of starvation even to the star of Bethle-
hem. Men have lost hope, they have be-
come Pessimists. The upper classes of
society are swallowed up with them
selves. The middle class ape the preced-
ing, while the toilers are for the most
part indifferent. Charity there is when
men starve, other men will dance and
| drink to collect a little to assist them
Men try to stretch the garments of kind
ness to cover their naked crime, by pre-