Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-05-16
NO HALT.
The Battle for the Rights of the Farmers
Must Go On.


Must Go On.
The battle must go on. Edmund
Burke says: ''Wars between men NAV
cease, but wars between the principles
will never cease" No, because God is
at the end of one principle and the devil
at the end OF the other. The one repre-
sents right, the other wrong; the one
love and the other greed; the one uni
versal happiness and the other almost
universal misery. There was a time
when the traveller walked kneep-deep in
the mud. Now he can ride in a palace
car. That represents the advance of
humanity. But even yet few only
ride and many must walk. The move
ment must 60 on-(God has his shout
der behind) until every one can ride;
until the cars will be big enough for all :;
well lighted, well ventilated, well
warmed, well stocked with food for all
and there viii be a comfortable seat for
every man, and no man shall stand
while another occupies two seats.
Progress does not consist in throwing
part of the passengers out of the win
dow, but in enlarging the cars until
there is room for all The welfare of
the many does not require the destruc-
ton of the few.
And there cannot be any halt in this
battle. 1t must go on until every wrong
is righted. Everything that is beauti-
full, peaceful, loving, admirable in the
world is the result of a part or section of
this never-ending contest. Out of ar
rested selfshness comes happiness.
Think how many charming, happy
homes there are in this America, be-
cause our forefathers cast down the
Dagon of English oppression, and wiped
out throne and nobility and church.
craft. Think how many wretched homes
there are in this America because new
set of demons have risen up to ltaSsDEzzz
seat, and haye flung over the pes
vast net of taxation, to support r.
capital and build up an aristocracy
baser, meaner and more heartless than
that which we overturned in 1776.
Poverty is simply testimony to the
imperfection of onr social condition; vice
is simply the bloody sweat of poverty.
Religion must begin by improving the
condition of mankind. The establish
ment Of universal prosperity is of more
importance than the preservation of in
dividual virtue. God never set the
abundant table OF this world with in
tent that the gluttons should gorge to
sickness, while thousands starved in
the ante-roOms. There are seats for all
and food for all, but He left the distri-
button of it to that sub-deity and under
creator, the intelligence of man. This
it is that out of the thistles and the
stones is to re-create paradise and plant
anew the trees of life and knowledge.
The Alliance has not sought the bal
lot boxes because it desired to build up
political party. In the strictest sense
Of the word it is not party; it is not
emulous to create politicians with all
their poisonous tricks. 1t found certain
evils that could only be overcome by the
right of suffrage. and when it marched
its forces in platoons to the ballot box
men cried out, 10 it is a party" Ne
cessi'y may drive it still farther. The
companies may grow into regiments the
regiment into brigades; the brigades
into divisions;the divisions into a Grand
Army of Liberation, whose activities not
even a continent may limit. The mot
toes blazened on its banners may ex-
pand from local issues to worldwide
principles. 1t may establish the great
liberal party of the new world. The
scope of its love may embrace the starry
ing peasants Of Europe. Its vital prin-
ciples may be the overthrow OF injustice
and suppression of the giant forms of
human selfshness. At these all its bay
onets shall be leveled against these all
its cannon shall thunder. Gods people
must possess Gods world and enjoy it.
-Ignatius Donnelly.
Ladies To Learn to Shoot.