St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-05

principle of the right of self-defense in
collective form? Do not your courts
even today define the rational and pro-
gressive liberty of Washington and JEFF
fersOn and Adams and Hancock and all
your martyred dead to be but the SUBJ
seryient civil liberty taught England by
Locke? Has not society continued, and
does not all the forms of public thought
Still demand the continuance of capital
istie dominion over free labor? Do they
mot hurl in your faces when you ask for
bread the dogma of the Hebrew Moses,
Servants, obey your masters?" Do
they not glorify your state by telling
you that you are no longer as you were
before the Christ came. slave? Do
they not endeavor to eXalt you by point
ing out that you are risen above the
condition of the serf?
But, though you live in republic
under a constitution recognizing the
God endowed rights of freemen, and
the genius OF whose government rests
upon the fundamental principle that
Fall laws derive their power from the
consent of the governed, are You today
anything more than wage men? your
tected by an organic economy which
should guarantee to you the right of
your own labor, leglslated against in
every form, hampered by laws which
were passed when class life was domi-
nant and labOrers were SerfS? ana do
they not tell you that you are COM
PEELED. and will forever be compelled,
TO this condition because it is your duty
to submit to preserve the English in
depreciation OF civil liberty?
What is the moral aspect of the times?
Has the practice of the mercantile econ-
omy by Christian nations fostered and
defended pure ethics or pure morals?
Are not the masses of mankind break
ing in every direction to all points of
the circumference which lies around
religions glorious center? Are they not
accepting in their despair the logged
cynicism of slepticiSm, and struggling
for natural liberty and natural justice
denying the very intuitive beatingS of
their own souls? Can You produce pub
lie peace by system which denies prl-
vate peace? Can you produce public
happiness by a system which destroys
private happiness? Is your republic to
become mass of individual lives Co
creed to unity by the mere force of pub
lie law? What force among the class
HITS llOW pUlHtS lHcll W tllc UlNluc I'D
ternity of the risen Savior? What gov
ernment today legislates upon the fra
ternal principles which are to become
the glorious supersLructure of Mosean
law? There are none; no, not one.
There is but one force or power among
men which in the dust and in the dark
ness of the present time. unconscious
though they be, are surely marching
toward the north star of Jesus Christ,
the last triumphal march of man, and
that is the marching line of organized
free laborers in this republic. They
have determined upon the establish
ment of fraternal principles. They
prescribed no form. They have nomi-
fess TO see further than the COD of our
Fathers permits them to see, but they
have faith and they have by the eyolu-
ton of human labor perceived the
necessity of fraternity. They have
caught the CLEAN of the cross through
knowledge of personal suffering and
conception of the utility of labor. They
believe, in the language of the eminent
Dr. Swing, of Chicago. that if He has
said that a greater than Moses has come
they are to follow Him instead of fol-
owing Moses.
The Institution and commencement of
of mankind toward the discovery of.
and the institution in legislation and in
all the forms of public thought and act,
of fraternal system of economy which,
distinguished from mercantile political
economy, shall now give TO labor its
own reward, has been reserved to the
free people of this republic. God seems
to have destined that within the heaven
defended walls of this favored land the
evolutionary processes OF free labor
should in its own evolution. by processes
mysterious and unfathomable to the in
GlfVisIudl mind, but enforced by the col
Deceive energies of all Gods poor, brtDg
out in bold relief the ever-Sounding and
-resounding shout of the NaZarene, when
He cried:
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
Blessed are they that mourn.
p Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy.
Blessed are the peacemakers. for they
shall be called the children of God.
Ye are the salt of the earth. Ye are
the light of the world.
For human society. Christian though
it has been called, has never yet been
able to give tone or force OF power to
these beatitudes. They are deferred to
the evolutionary processes Of labor.
This government was founded upon
principles which should become elastic
to the progressive thought and enlight-
ened conScienceS of its freedom. 1t was
not founded to secure conscientious lib
erty, nor personal liberty, nor political
liberty alone. 1t was founded in the
hope that its Christian and enlightened
cOnscience-led citizens would become
able, in Gods own time, when unfet-
tered by the slavery Of creed or of form
OF conscience; when eXalting in perfect
personal freedom, guided by the con-
science; when unfettered by any polit-
ical or economic code; strong in the
possession of political freedom, to dis
cover and TO establish with constltu-
tional and legislative provisions sys-
TEN of economic freedom which would
permit men to enjoy the pursuit of hap
piness named in the declaration of our
Coded fathers.
March on, brave phalanX! Your
march is under heaven improvising the
Marseilles OF economic liberty. Your
march is Oh and ever ON to the zones of
human peace. You are the guard of
God You are deployed. as was the
guard of the emperor. protesting against
the coalition of kings on Mount st.
Jean, but not for Waterloo. If you can
fail, old German and Saxon liberty is
lost, and the sacred cross of Christ will
fail. Fear not, fear not; march on.