The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-11-04
THE DAILY PRESS.

patton of the people from the thraldom
Of capitalistic tyranny, is the almost
impossibility of getting them to do
anything themselves towards their own
release Were it not that the dead
people themselves are part of US who
work and strive to be free, and hold us
to themselves by chlins that cannot be
broken except with their consent, we
might. after spending reasonable time
in trying to rouse them from their
deadly slumber, say-after the manner
of Vanderbit-"the people be damed,"
and proceed to enjoy our own freedom
by ourselves. But as we are part of
the race, and the people can only pro-
gress as race, we shall have to endure
to be chained to the corpses until we
obtain their consent to be revived.
Meantime, what can we do towards
helping men to think-the thing which
the combined political, religious and
newspaper thieves in possession So easily
and successfully keep them from doing?
Is it not perfectly evident that the
daily newspaper-which is trumpeted
as the palladium of Liberty"-is the
chief engine in the debauchery Of the
people? The chief and almost only
light ~ it is engaged in spreading is
the light that reveals the foul and
rotten cesspools of private vice that
had better be left unrevealed, and the
opposite party's treachery, venality and
thievishness. But on the remedy for
these gangrencd sores, it casts daily
nothing but large beams Of thick dark
ness. Daily it feeds to the omnivorous
and empty headed public, at the low
price of one or two cents, all the literary
trash, chaff and garbage that its
ubiquitous and enterprising reporters
can collect in one day. Everything Of
anamusing, side tracking character
like the late Columbus tomfoolery, that
keeps the people bowling and shouting
and satisfied, is elaborated in descrip-
ton to hundreds of columns of windy
and dropsical verbosity, while things OF
vital import to their political and
economical we'll being are dealt out by
the little stickful, if at all. Eopements,
seductions, scandals, murders, detective
stories, embellishments are shoveled ad
anfnitum down the wide open Threats
of young and old boys and girls, who
ride to and from work every morning
and evening, whose literary taste is SO
debauched by this high spiced rot, that,
to read through one small paragraph
on any economic social question gives
them nausea.
What wonder then that to such a
mob that swallows the morning aud
evening editions and extras of The
DAILY Garbage Barrel, The Universal
SwW Gatherer, The Uncovered Cess
pool, The Morning Liar and the
Eveaing Hypoerite, you can never sell a
labor paper or anything that attempts
to call attention TO their condition as
degraded slaves. These advertiser.
bound, plutocrat hired literary prosti-
tutes for "the largest circulation" and
political favor, are adopts in the art
handed down for centuries-of fddling
and monkeying to keep the people
amused while government. goes
through their pockets, and they work
the game uproariously; for the citizens
of this great free, etc., etc., American
Republic are so very easily befooled
and buncoed.
And of the great army OF "labor"
men and women, how many are there
that may not be classed with the above
mentioned mob of gullible devourers Of
the trash served by the capitalistic
press }? Very few, | fear, or else there
would be enough to support at least one
labor daily paper. 1t is notorious that
laborIng men will always loyalty sup
port the two cent organs o: their OPP
pressors. while they allow to be buried
in Potter's Field the papers that cham.
pion their own rights, which proves the
truth of the charge that working men
are their own worst enemies, aud that
the chains that bind them are self
imposed.
Were | not full of the conviction
that the laboring classes are largely
unteachsble fools, would propose a
universal boycott by all working men
on the daily papers. Let everyone who
thoughtlessIy hands out his two cents
every morning or his one cent in the
evening, for his favorite rubbish, relig-