Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-21
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'"s Restored Priest sianfniiy Cham p,o,.
Ing the Cnnse OF the Poor

- "hntuf1y Cham piOp-
Ing the Cause Of the Poor.
In close keeping with the newly
aroused =, consciousness and conscience Of
.ne people concerning the land question
u the increasing distrust Of and hatrad
Tor hpecnlators, uslrers. monopolista
ana the 50 called trusts. As the cond;-
tions OF life for large masses Of neonls
become harder and harder, men are rer.
ceiving that by improper social adjust.
lnehts' and by unwise and unjust and
not infrequently corrupt legislation
'ney are becoming juggled and swindled
out OF the enjoyment Of their equal right
70 labor for a living and to eniov fbe
run fruits OF what they produce by their
labor. They are feeling more kae,l,,
every day that lapdlordism. usurv mo.
nopoiy' special privileges granted by
charter and by law, are rapidly tending
W reduce the masses Of the people to n
condltion OF industrial slavery, to make
the rich enormously richer. to concen.
trate the wealth of the country in va
masses In fewer and fewer hands n
make the poor poorer, and to rednce tho
lowest and largest stratum Of society to
slaves. '"''ei
Inc strong language used by Pope Leo
AL! IN describing the condition Of the
working masses in his own Eurone arc
already, sad to say, largely applicable 10
our own land. There are here already
noe rev VINO care not to sing at all, or,
II they sing it. sing it much less Justify
than OF old, Hail Columbia. Hapny
Landr The words of Pope Leo are well
worth quoting: Nv orkingmen have been
gwen over, isolated and defenseless IN
the callousness OF employers and the
greed OF unrestrained competition. The
ev1i has been increased by rapacious
usury, which, although more than once
condemned by the church, is neverthe-
less under a different form, but with
the same guilt, still practiced by avari.
clous and grasping men. And to this
must be added the custom of working
by contract and the concentration of 70
many branches of trade in the hands Of
few individuals, so that small mum.
Der OF very rich men have been able to
lay upon the masses of the poor yoke
little better than slavery itself"
simultaneously and in logical keeping
with the new consciousness of men. that
they are wrongfully deprived Of their Cd
portunity to labor, and consequently Of
the just wages for their labor, is the
growing consciousness that they are be
ing robbed and oppressed by the turning
over to individuals and to corporations
OF things that by their very nature should
be owned and controlled by the organ
lied people, or, in other words. the gov
eminent, In trust for the whole people
SO that private individuals should receive
no special private benefit from then
without perfectly equivalent return
Common workingmen, mechanics, tail
ors. sailors, printers, self educated jour
nalists who have in their earlier days
sailed before the mast around the world
and been doing their thinking in the
night watches under the silent stars and
later at the printers case. have been
thinking and mentally controverting and
refuting the stuff that they were print.
ing from statesmen and (save the mark!
political economists; have been com.
PEELED partly by their own poverty and
still more largely by divine enthu ii.
asm for humanity and sympathy for
their still poorer and less fortunate breth.
rem either to tear to pieces and to stamp
upon some of the orthodox political econ.
omies or to take from them the kernel OF
truth which they contained, and to make
such sternly logical application of them
as to brighten the now wealthy and hon
ored fashionable lions and pets of aristo-
cratic drawing rooms from whose hon.
est utterances Of poorer and better days
they have been taken. - Edward Nc
Glynn