The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-11-11
LABOR ORGANIZATION.

LABOR ORGANIZATION.
A Revolution of Brains and Ballots
That Will Shake This Continent.
Standing on the threshold OF q CEN
fury fown-a century freighted with
hopes and fears struggles and tri-
umphs-and looking through the open
portal OF the century to come. we re-
alize that the same influences that
blotted from among the powers of the
earth and the old nations of the earth
Persia Greece and Rome-and sent
them down to national decay. are at
work on this continent undermining
the foundations OF our republic, CEN
Trailing all the wealth in the hands
of q few. and rapidly reducing the Ia
Dor classes to condition of pitiable
serfdom.
We see the national highway on
which we have been travelling for a
century marked by blighted hopes.
blasted fortunes broken hearts,
ruined homes and fallen virtue
marked by an army of skeletons of
those who have persisted miserably
because of unrequlted toll OF toll
denied.
We see a law-favored few sitting in
| Judgment on the life of the people.
intrenched on the thrones of Justice
their tongues clothed with sophistry
and falsehood. They degrade and
pollute the pew and pulpit extol
Mammon. and pronounce as d virtue
that which the Son of Man declared
CO. equal with murder and idolatry.
They send the starvation driven
wretch and the thoughtless boy to
the penitentiary for peculation, and
exalt to the highest position in state
and nation gamblers. thieves and
moral wreckers of society. The man
whom the old prophets sent to hell
are sent by bribery and Doodle to con-
gress to make laws for the people.
Society's rotten. determination and
superstructure OF our social makeup
is honeycombed with fraud and
hypocrisy. Churches are so rotten
that were the Son of Man = the
tramp Christie seek admission to
their portals for Himself or His
Galileean followers they would be
arrested and punished as Migrants.
So-called ministers of Christ uphold
false political doctrine and join with
the oppressors against the oppressed
instead of preaching the word of God.
At last has come the awakening!
A triune monopoly of land. transpor-
tation and money is jeopardizing the
blood bought liberties of the people
Something must be done. Awakened
by oppression. stern and relentless as
destiny men seek wisdom in council
strength in unity and harmony in Or
ganization. 1--WE" they say, can get
along without plutocrats and their.
knaves but they can not get along
without us to aid them in their
schemes of robbery"
And so. all over this broad land.
reorganization has become the key
note of mighty movement among
the masses-a movement that is the
beginning Of revolution-not l
trust, a revolution of blood and bull
let's but revolution of brains and
ballots, that will shake this continent.
move the world. emancipate the toll
I
tho American people. but all the
! world
The united and embattled hosts of
organized labor will rescue the per-
ishing and send forth the sanitary
angel of justice with the flaming
sword OF liberty to drive from our
land the miasma of poverty and sin,
for they are analogous terms.
A rise in breadstuffs means a fall in
virture and morality; an increase in
the cost of living means an increase
in the sum total of vice and crime.
1t is folly to talk of morality and
temperance to hungry stomach.
Gods physical laws demand food raj
ment and shelter. and we would de-
crease poverty, vice and crime by
tending to the physical necessities and
obeying natures irrevocable laws
College bred fools tell US that period
ical famines with their attendant vice
and poverty. are due to the inflexible
law of supply and demand" and a
few superstitious idiots pirate about
the '1nscrutable ways of divine Prov
idence;'' but while millions of acres OF
speculation bound lands are held
idle and unused in the hands of cor
porations. and the toll worn laborer is
denied access to the earth and is com
PEELED to compromise with the silk
hated son Of idleness for permission
to exist it is the blacklist of all black
blasphemy to attribute social dis
ORDER financial panic. commercial
crisis starvation. sin and despair to
Almighty God. and downright obstin-
ate ignorance and stupidity attribute
them to the law of supply and de.
mand." We would in our Peoples
party abolish poverty by teaching and
permitting the poor to help them
selves
Ye have shorn and bound the Samson and
robbed him of learning's light;
But his sluggish brain is moving; his
sinews have all their might.
Look well to your gates of GAIA, your priv
ilege pride and caste;
The giant is blind but thinking, and his
locks are growing fast.
Mary E Lease in San Francisco Elk.
aminer.