People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-02

first, the colossal money kings with
power approaching the miraculous.
Second, their envious followers, not
possessing so much, but bending every
energy to overtake them in the mad
race for wealth.
Third, the well to do wage workers
whose salaries are good, labor light,
who seeing no course to complain, OPP
pose complaints from others.
Fourth, the stability of society,
which dreading revolutionary shock,
are firmly opposed to radical change
in anything. The money kings seeing
their advantage, use the first class as
their most trusted allies to keep labor
in bondage. They tell their followers
if you wish to reach US in Importance
and riches, you must deal with labor
with an iron hand, for it is from labor
we get all we have, or ever expect to
have: Be sure that they do not get
justice, for if they should, they might
have some of it to spare for us, and
we have not, nor never did have any
use for that commodity.
To the satisfied wage workers, they
hold up the dread of discharge. To
the stability of society, they direct
their newspapers to hold up the awful
horror of a state of communism; to
enlarge upon, to misrepresent, to ex-
aggerate the utterances of every friend
of the cause, to bundle them all in one
package and labelling it anarchistic,
denounce them as enemies to the we'll
being of society, highly revolu-
tionary and dangerous.
And yet in the face of all this we
are reminded almost daily that this is
land of "Christian Civilizations but
my own observation leads me to en-
dorse the following from the pen of
the lamented John Boyle O'Riely.
"The qualities we naturally dislike
and fear in man are those which in
sure success under our present social
adroitness, selfishness, the mind to
take advantage of necessity, the will
to trample on the weak in the canting
name of progress and civilization.
The qulities we love in a man send
him to the poorhouse, generosity,
truth, trustfulness, friendliness, unset
ishness, the desire to help, the heart
| to pity, the mind to refuse profit from
a neighbours loss or weakness, the de-
Tense of the weak, Our present civili-
cation is organized injustice and intel
lectual barbarism.
Our progress is a march to preci-
pice. The sermon on the mount and
natural justice can rule the world, or
they cannot.
If they can, our present ruling is the
invention of the devil. If they cannot,
the devil has a right to rule, if the peo-
pie let him, but he ought not to call
his rule christian civilization.
Also the following from the James
town N. W Journal:
FFMen don't believe in devil now as
their fathers used to do,
They've forced the door of the broadcast
creed to let his majesty through.
There isn't a print of his cloven foot,
or frey dart from his bow
To be found in earth or air, for the
world has voted it SO.
But who is mixing the fatal draught
that palsies heart and brain
And loads the bier Of each passing year
with ten hundred thousand slain.
Who blights the bloom of the land to-
day with the fiery breath of hell.
If the devil isn't and never was, will
somebody rise and tell?
Who dogs the steps Of the toiling saint,
and digs the pits for his feet,
Who sows the tares on the field of time,
wherever God SOW his wheat?
The devil is voted not to be, and of
course the thing is true,
But who is doing the kind of work that
the devil alone should do"
E. WITCH.
Atlanta, Ca, August 30th.