People's voice., 1893-01-27
Will the Day Come?

Un0er tnls caption GOy. Felt, OF
the AtchisOn Champion, writes the
following stirring sentences:
Victor Hugo wrote that he believed
the time would come when the world
would behold 1.-The end of prostitution
for women; The end Of starvation for
man; the end Of night for the child,
the age of brotherhood, concord and
dawn"
But how slow is its approach, Civ
ilization is at its highest point in the
history of all the earth. Christianity
unfOlds its banner in nearly every
land and isle of the sea. Wealth has
multiplied to such marvellous sums
that finite mind cannot, compute it.
Rich cathedrals and handsome
churches raise their lofty spires to
kiss the clouds, but grim want and
hunger darken the doorway of myriad
homes and despair haunts the eyes and
chills the hearts Of thousands.
Less than fifty men and women in
the city of New York are worth 81
00O, 100000. Think Of it; carloads of
gold. Yet in that city 100000 people
were turned into the streets because
they could not pay their rent in 1892
More evicted tenants in one district
in New York than in all Ireland.
The rich man is growing very rich.
The poor man very poor.
Hush! Don't touch upon these
topics; to speak of these things is to be
an agitatOr; to lose caste, to be looked
upon as a disturber of the existing
order of things; to go counter to es-
tabliShed platforms.
Three years ago in the city of New
York twenty per cent. of all those
who died were inmates of hOspita S.
insane aSylums or warehouses, and
nearly One-tenth of all who perished
in that city were buried in the pot
ter's field. A billion dollars in the
hands of fifty citizens, and
thousands perishing from hunger;
thousands of innocent girls driven by
sheer desperation to lives of shame;
mothers dying; fathers out Of work:
children starving and a harvest for
pOtter's field But the $1,000, 900, 600
keeps right on increasing. Death
may come; the smiles of childhood
may fade away: the hearts Of thous-
ands of human beings may break, but
greed survives and fattenS and inter-
est goes on forever.
Will the day ever come? Will hui
manity ever see the dawn portrayed
by Victor Hugo?
Not so long as dollars are worth
more than men, women and children.
Not while gold and avarice and greed
rule the land. What is man that
thou art mindful of him." He is only
an atom. A few days more and you
GIN rattle his bones over the stones
say a formal prayer, even shed a tear,
if you are not in too much of hurry,
and return to your triune god of
greed, avarice and gold.
What trinity. 1t covers all the
sins of the world. 1t builds work
houses, asylums, hospitals, prisons
and potter's fields and fills them all.
Will the day ever dawn? 1t is ter
rible question. 1t must be met, too.
Do not try to evade it. Who knOweth
the way?
When Governor Lewelling YESTERDAY
spoke feelingly of a dream he enter
tained that there shall come a time
when poverty would be unknown,
when men would universally love and
respect each other, and when the
wealth of the world would be more
equally divided, there were those who
sneered as at the utterances of an an
archiSt. Yet Governor Lewelling's
most fervid statements were not COM
parable in vigOr of style or appalling
array of frightful facts with this in
dictment made by Governor Felt.
The POpulist has been outdOne in a
calamity howl by a Republican, and
the honor of it is that it is every
word Gods truth!-Lawrence Record,
January 10.