The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-15
THE NEW SLAVERY.
Freed from One Se,fdam to Enter Upon
Another.

Another.
To THE EDIToR-Sir: The war is over.
JEFF Davis is dead The frightful phan-
tom OF the rebel debt no longer haunts the
fearful day dreams OF supremacy "loil"
men. The bloody shirt. bleached and
tattered and torn by the winds and storms
of nearly three decades, flaps idly on the
party lines, a harmless reminder of dis
sensions healed. The sable shade Of Liza
Pinkston no longer stalks in somber pail
across the southern sky. The turtle dove
of brotherly love is cooling in palmetto
grove and pine tree glade. The olive
branch OF peace is waving from lakes TO
gull From all the hard-fought fields,
once red with blood by brothers shed,
glisten and CLEAN enduring monuments to
the heroic dead. Monolith and statue, in
park and square, North and South, en-
shrine the fame of leaders great, whose
bronzed lips whisper to the leaves:
peace, peace" The veteran, grizzled
and gray, shoulders his crutch and
fights his battles DER again" before an
audience born and grown to maturity
since the last echo OF hostile strife sank
into eternal silence. The shackles of serf
dom have fallen from adown-trodden race,
and the slave of wore now wears I SOW
ereign's crown. The land teens with
plenty and the coming harvests will in
crease our store, while vine and fir tree,
flock and herd, yield prodigal returns.
A pleasing picture. But
ton, no
bondslave's limbs have letters been forged
to bind the restless millions OF this favored
land. The chains that bound the saD,e
servant 10 a masters will, heightened and
siren gthened, now ensnare the toiling
masses in relentless coil. Conquerors
and conquered, master aud servant. bond
and free, black and whire-seris and
slaves, all-shackled, chained aud bound
to a iuggernaut whose masters drive with
a relentless hand.
Taxed from the cradle to the grave-on
puking bib and winding sheet, N red tin
cup and coffin plate-to pour < 'lden
stream TO Golfers bursting now with stolen
wealth. The fairness of the land and the
fuiness thereof mortgaged, and sold to
satisfy the demands OF monopoiies tor
more.
The homesteads of the hardy frontiers
man, wrenched from the wilderness 10y
INCREASING toll, mortgaged. taN-ridden and
despoiled, Slapped If their life blood by
the voracious claws of the moneyed devil
fish whose relentless grasp L. frightened
and made firm by unjust laws-conceived
in fraud and born in iniquitv-whose sole
intent and aim was the elevation OF the
rich and the degradation OF the poor.
Men crazed with hunger, frantic from
wrones inflicted by our unjust industrial
system, gather, IS q fostering ulcer, and
are shot down like wolves.
While barns are bursting with abund-
ance, and aggregated wealth. like a wet
SNOWFALL, increases with accelerated speed
at each revolution OF its iron vince {,
starvation's eaunt and frightul specter
broods above our great cities, tramps in
fest the country and the ranks OF the I'M
employed, though fast depleted by hard
ship and privation. constantly swell at an
appalling rate.
And to the cry of the down trodden-
TO the overwhelming protest OF an out
ragged people--the king and court, with
one acclaim, make answer: Great is pro-
lection and Mckinley is its prophet! We
have given you free sugar"
A. p. KERR.
Indianapolis, April 8.