The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-16
THE ONLY ROAD TO FREEDOM.

THE ONLY ROAD TO FREEDOM.
We may organize in ssbrotherhoods" and
talk our time away.
Wemay theorize forever and yet despond-
emit stay,
We may ssresolute" 'gainst robbery and do
whate'er we like,
For capital is stronger than the very
strongest strike.
The money power is safe enough while
workers still divide
And vote against each other-they who
should be side by side;
The rich will be defended. by the soldiery
and laws
Till the workers get together and vote for
labOr'S cause.
O, workers, weary workers, who bear
the rubs and knocks,
The only road to freedom runs past the
ballOt-b box.
The kings of transportation each take a
robbers toll,
They stand between consumers and labor's
wage control;
The gold monopolizers curst usury demand
And millions drawn from labor enrich the
lords Of land.
should be
Itself outlawed forever-the people may be
free
We all must vote together for equal birth
rights lost.
For money, land and commerce secured to
us at cost.
Q workers, weary workers. who bear the
rubs and knocks,
The only road to freedom runs past the
ballot-box
The men who spend in luxury what others
toll has earned
Should stand exposed for what they are,
and be as robbers spurned;
The universal law of God that each shall
sweat for bread.
In Justice on our statute books, should fill
the dudes with dread
The useless butterflies who cost their SIS
tiers lives of shame
Should be considered vastly worse and
wear the vilest name;
But those whose lives should give them
rank as; lowest of the race
Will proudly reign as kings and queens till
labor claims its place.
o workers, weary workers, who bear the
TubS and knocks,
The only road to freedom runs past the
ballot-box.
George Howard Gibson, Lincoln, Neb.
Nobility Of Labor.
Blood never made nobleman.
The blood of king is as poor as
that OF a peasant and often poorer.
The blood OF the autocrat. whose
whispers shake kingdom and whose
nod awes a continent is not more
crimson or of greater virtue than the
serf's which the autocrat despises
Birth never endows nobility. ~sss'-a
The magnifcence Of the cradle or
the tinted frescoing and gorgeous
drapery OF the palace never created
rank
He alone is a nobleman who has
made the world better and happier
for having lived. who fringed the
clouds with silvery beauty. planted
the rose and watered into bloom upon
the desert waste beautifed the forest
wilds or gathered the splendors of the
valley into charming symmetry.
There are millions OF noblemen
over whose graves a tear was never.
shed and which time has leveled to
the even surface of the prairie but
from which streams back through
centuries the glow of nobility which
charms world into humble worship
of its sublimity and genuine worth.
Many man has died unhonored
and unsung who left in every foot.
print from his childhood to the tomb
rich and brilliant legacy worth
commemorating.
From mental and physical exertion
the earth has shot its sunshine into
the gloom of rudeness and science
has rained its softness on the world.
On every field that bears tempt
ing harvest on it's breast on every
brick in every building that was
ever reared on every book of
value that was ever writ
ten. on every thought that burns
to light the world. in every workshop
mine furnace and factory-wherever
labor sweats-are written the cre-
dentials OF nobility. Independent.
Looking to Monarchy.
The New York Tribune. Whitelaw
Reds paper few years ago. said:
1T is astonishing, yea. startling. tho
extent to which faith prevails in
money circles in New York that we
ought to have king"
Whitelaw Reid and his gang would
welcome the overthrow of the repuD-
lie. They have been working in that
direction for years.
The .plutocrats have the wealth OF
the country in their controls they
have the regular army, the militia of
the several states. the police the
Pinkerton army. and the courts all at
their back.
In our larger cities particularly
New York and Chicago they have
their forts and soldiers and police
are trained in street firing" how to
best train Calling and other guns to
NOW down the populace in the
streets
But this country will be. great
deal older than it is now before we
have king; Notwithstanding well in
formed people had fears that the at
tempt would be made to crown Grant
king upon his return from his trip
around tho world.
Christianity and Good Citizenship.
Terrific forces of evil menace
Christianity and even society itself.