The Labor enquirer., 1888-01-21
Goes For The Crawfishing.
Pope -Worshiping Irish
World 4"
ANARCHISTS VS.. LIDER7Y1
Yes; We Are "Down" On That Lib.
erty which Allows Man 10 Rob
His Brother.

F9r the Enquirer
The hIh World in an editorial
OF recent date reitcrates that old,
time chestnut about the socialis,
school to which Mr.. Gronlund be,
longs being opposed to liberty.
The socialist school as | under,
stand candidly admits being op.
posed to liberty as it exists to.
day; this liberty. for instance. that
allows one man TO live off an
others toll, permits one man to
monopolizc land that he can never
use and allows him to cxtort from
him who can use it the major part
OF his earnings; that keeps those
who neither toll nor spin in luxu-
rious idlencss and supplied with
the fat OF the land; that compels
those who build railroads and car
riages TO ride "shanks mares
when they travel, while the lagard
and the drone have whole trains
at their bidding; that allows insti-
tutions, such as banks, to fleece
the workers by charging from 10
10 - per cent interest per annum
which just draws from the laborer
that which should go to make his
life comfortable; that make men
toll ten hours per day when four
hours is sufficient TO provide all
with the necessities of life; that
drives women TO a life of drudg-
cry, young girls to a life of shame,
little children to the bad and
plungcs the majority into 4 life of
misery pittiable an the extreme.
This is the liberty the socialists
are opposed aud to which the Irish
HofM considers true liberty. The
liberty and freedom the socialists
favor is the liberty that gives to
each access to Gods free gift to
man the earth and all natural
resources.
Further on the Irish II~d says;
What the weak and poor want is
not liberty but protection This
IS wrong. and they don't wapt any
protection atall Theywant equal
rights; the only class that howl
about protection is the capitalist
class They want to be SO well
protected that they can resort To
every dishonest cXpedient to get
what rghtiully belongSto another
and then haVS the blood hounds
in the shapo,ol policemen, militia
and hired murdcrcrs detectives
10 protect them with their ill-got-
ten gains. They are the ones that
want protection.
In ordinary acccptation OF the
words, a genuine dcspotism would
be considered state where the
people were deprived OF exercising
political rights. In this state,
however. they are given the right
To vote. but custom and the laws
prevent the people from cxercis-
ing their natural right the right
TO what they produce. With the
intention Of creating prejudice
among the narrow. bigoted. con-
tfacted, one-sided. greedy, selfish
adhcrcnts of the several churches,
the h3h IIorld proceeds to show
that the personnel OF the socialist
school are not merely inhdels in
religion but thorough-going ma
tcrialiStS." A. matter of fact,
materialism and socialism are dis
tlnct, and the fact that one enter
tlins both beliefs has no signih-
Cance whatever.
Many radical socialists have
been and arc to-day genuine
christians. One can work for the
elevation OF humanity and distrib-
utiye Justice regardless of his be-
lief in future state, his opinions
Of the divinity of Christ, the
nature OF God. or the trinity.
The blh World in an article oi
,amc issue on anarchy and anarch-
l,ts say: anarchists in selecting
This country for the focus Of ex-
pcriment and propagandism." and
so forth. Now. as a matter OF
history, this is untruthful. This