Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-09-21
OUR DESTINY.
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tighten the burdens of life. to lift life
above drudgery, just in this time 90
down into darkness again, as if there
had not been a long, long period of
struggle, when a glimpse is had of the
station Of grand relief: And all because
we are Intellectually and morally not
fit to maintain what cost the immensely
of sacrifices to attain. The press IS help
ing to break the editiCe of attachments.
Behold what it offers you from day to
day as intellectual food How it inilu-
ences the unwary and Inexperienced !,
1t Is unworthy of our time that these
influences find the necessary conditions
for existence. II is certain that, when
the Influences Of home and school are
once of the character that we are aiming
for, the conditions that we are deploring
here will vanish as does the snow of
winter under the effect of the sun in the
spring; only then life, young and sound,
will prosper.
1t is fitting here to view another insti-
tuition, that of the Church. The great
influence it sways is caused by the help.
lessness of the poor. II Is poverty and
misery that requires consolation. The
heavier the burden Of life rests upon the
poor, the less there is any prospect, the
more there is longing for relief, and
then the disposition to accept the prom
Use Of a hereafter as a reward for the
trials and suirerings in this life is great.
This phantom and elf-deception must
afford consolation in want Of something
more tangible. This deception is all
that is offered as set-oif for your dep
rivatiOns. You may suffer as seriously
as you will in consequence of our per-
verse economic conditions, you are told
by the Church that these are trials i'm
posed on you by God, for which a re-
Thus you suffer in patience, and thus
you are the victims of deception praC-
tiCed on you in the interest of the de-
ceiver. You suffer deprivations because
you are told that it is futile to oppose
the will of God, that the cause of your
suffering is the eternal order created by
God" and thus you become resistless
victims to the extOr,ioner. Behold how
anxious they are for your welfare after
death. But for your welfare in this life
they show no anxiety; rather the re-
verse. Reflect on this. Mind that
when your body suffers your intellect
must also suffer, and thus you are di-
vested of all worth as men. When you
suffer because of poverty, for want of
proper nourishment and care, You are
undermining your existence in all as
poets. physically, Intellectually aid
morally, for all depend upon Il sound
body. In it alone the brain may be
sound. The functions of the brain are
conditioned upon the material substance
of it, and are, in fact, our intellectual
and moral life. Disturb the material
conditions of it for want of proper nour-
ishment or other causes, and you dis
turb and injure the intellectual and
moral life. Because of this, | say pow
erty is the foe of life
And here again you must look to So
cialism for relief. Socialism has no in
terest to deceive you; it must protect
you. Socialism means all, without eX-
ClusiOn. The veal Of all mankind is
our care. If we remove the cause Of
poverty; make the exploitation of men
by men impossible; when the opportun-
tiles Of life are open to all, then we have
created conditions that are reassurlng.
When you may exercise your powers as
nature and careful training afford them,
and when the result Of it is coming to
you without any abstraction from it.,
when you may satisfy your wants &C
cOrding to the dictates of common
sense, what consolation will you then
stand in need Of!
The administration of justice is
another mighty factor in our social
structure. Of what great and useful
influence it is when in reality it is the
dispenser of justice; when the relations
of man TO man are adjusted upon the
basis of equity; when peace and good
will result, because all are protected.
But what are our actual experiences
The author of "Co-operative Com
monwealth" gives us a graphical pic
the gross abuse of an institution upon
which the safety of life, liberty, and the
future of the people largely depend to-
day. 1t will modify your exultant
clamor of patriotism when you find
that the essential of republic, Justice,
is wanting. Mr.. Gronlund shows that
the activity of the lawyer is not to
further justice; it is to gain victory,
irrespective of it. He uses all means
for the purpose; attempts to mislead the
judge, jury, witnesses and his opponent
brother in law by man9uvres. The an
tiquated jury system is upheld because
it helps the lawyer in his warfare sys-
tenn; for he relies upon the prejudice
and ignorance of men to further his
chances of victory. 1t is rarely that a
case is decided upon its merits, based on
statute law, but on some precedent
found in the thousand and one of Eng
fish or American court reports, and
these preccdents may be found on
either side, and thus the decisions are
left to the caprice of the judge. In
spite of the codes made by legislation
the law system Of lawyers is founded
upon precedents, and they revere it as a