St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-05
EXISTING CONDITIONS.
A Code of Seifishness and Greed
Among Men.


A Code of Selfishness and Greed
Among Men.
Let US stop here for moment and
consider what effect the practice of the
mercantile political economy has had
upon Christian nations. If it is divine
truth that wealth consists in having a
larger proportion of the precious metals,
then we will see the fruits of this divine
truth in the happy condition of individ-
ual men and in the stability and peace
Of nations. Let us see. What is the
picture OF existing conditions now pre-
sented by so-called Christlon nations?
Cast your eyes over this beautiful
world, bountifully prepared by heaven
for mans individual happiness, which
could only be secured when the God
endowed rights OF life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness were lett to the
natural civic freedom of the nations of
the earth. Do you see peace? Do you
find happiness? Do you see liberty?
Do you feel liberty? On, no! no! The
nations of the Christian world, like vast
herds of affrighted cattle, are charg-
ing one against another, tramp ling
down the weak, wounding the strong,
producing discord in the place of peace.
Is it peace or war?
Peace sitting under her olive and slurring
the days gone by,
When the poor are hovell'd and hustled TO-
gether. each sex, like swine.
When only the ledger lives and when only
not all men lie;
Peace in her vineyard-yes but q COM
pany FORCES the wine.
And the vitriol madness fushes up in the
ruffian's head.
Till the vilthy by-lane rings to the yell of
the trampled wife,
While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to
the poor for bread.
And the spirit of murder works in the very
means OF life.
And Sleep must lie down armed, for the
villainous center bits,
Grind on the wakeful ear in the hush of
the moouless nights,
While another is cheating the sick of q few
last gasps as he sits
To pestle poison behind his crimson
lights. .si
"When a Mammonite mother kills her babe
for burial fee,
And Timour-Hammon grins on Pile of
children's bones,
Is it peace or war? Civil war, I think, and
that of kind,
The viler, as underhand, not openly bear
ing the sword
The avarice and cupidity of the
favored classes. uncontrolled by public
law or espionage. have instituted code
of selhshneSs and greed which is Known
in the commercial world under the
name of business. The uDrecogniZed,
Ubiquitous third house of legislation.
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ton has arisen, UNLIMITED by the people,
but unabashed at its own damning
lllegality, in the persons of the stock
boards, the option markets. the gam
bling bells and the self-constitnted
registration boards, and has in its own
name seized upon all the avenues of
human industry, defeating Gods law
OF supply and demand, changing
values at will, striking ruthlesslv down
industries for the sole purpose of
enjoying the robbery of their wreck,
creating false and fictitious capital,
taxing the painful labor of centuries vet
to come; in unmoleSted chicane legis-
lating what shall be and what shall not
be money; cnrrupting all forms of
public life; Selling the administration
of political parties; proStituting the
sentiments of liberty to be the body
guards of wrong and injustice; erecting
system of laws and customs over and
through all industry, by which PERM
cious laws and customs it takes from all
labor the just reward of its eXertions,
and with the abandoned effrOntery OF
an armed robber it denies the injured
all redress; while the free labor of the
republic, the heart and soul of liberty
itself, is now struggling in almost the
agonies of death beneath its decorating
claws.
Having arisen at the beck of Its own
greed, without the espionage OF that
deliberate legislation, which, in the in
telligence of our times, requires at least
the semblance of morality, it has marked
out for its domain field of eXertion not
contained within the bounds of morals.
Ii dlsportS itself in cruel trusts. From
the seat of its power, it strikes down in
duStry and destroys that force which
men know as political science by the
establishment of combines. 1t influences
governments TO the imposition of tariffs.
death-dealing to all industry, while
such governments by failing to provide
that tariffs imposed to protect industry
shall go to labor and to none other, have
become co-partnerS in this robbery of
Gods poor. Not satisfied with sapping
the profits of the industry of all labor.
1t has boldly devised and, unchecked
and unrebuked by creating wealth i'm
speculation, in the anticipation of future
values, it has fastened its robberies
upon the unborn sons of men.
What do you expect to find the condi-
ton OF national life to be under this
state of political economy? What do
you expect the fears of the robber class
to be? They fear retribution. The nat
ural, the necessary, the absolutely sure
and growing disorder of the time is ap-
preaching the doors of nations. For the
last fifty years the Christian nations of
Europe have been held together only by
organizing in tyranny all their popula-
lions into vast armies to keep the pub
lie peace. In defiance OF the divine rule
that the practice of fraternity shall be
the happiness of nations, In defiance of
the grand analysis and proof OF Adam
Smith that the wealth OF nations con-
sists in their annual labor, in spite of
the best ethics and the highest philos-
ophy of all the ages, the Christian ma
tionS of Europe still hold to the mer-
camille political economy and America
follows i'll their pathway.