The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-14
TIE FEW AND TIE MANY.
Politicians Rant About Progress with
They Deceive and Rob Labor.

Politicians Rant Abont ''rragr~ss'' white
They Deceive and Rob labor.
The rich are becoming richer and the
poor poorer. The few revel In wealth
beyond the dreams of ambition, and tho
many toll and moil" for a bare suhaift-
enoe. Monopoly rules, and tho masses
suffer from oorporate greed. Tho small
storekeeper has been swallowed up by 20
called syndicates, and the army Of wage
earners Is becoming larger every day.
Progress is the latest parrot cry Of the
age. and In its name labor L. made 20
suffer.
We are belaborei with plxtitudes
about progress" and the interest Of
commerce. Fine terms surely. Did they
not steal the bread from the children of
toll and add thousands to the immense
army Of the unemployed who walk OFF
streets in the painful apathy Of enforced
idleness, while the dear ones at home arc
In need of the necessaries of Efae
Progress is gigantic and hollow sham,
which has raised cheating and swindling
and lying to the dignity Of arts The la
borer who helps TO elect a man 10 Office
and that man uses his position to hurt
labor l. cheated by the polished hypccrite
who wields his power to injure those who
gave 1t to him.
Society in our large cities 10 divided
into three classes-the rich, tho politi-
clan and the workingman. The two for
mer have entered into an unholy alliance
to crush the spirit Of the latter and mako
him feel that 1t is by their forbearancs
he is permitted TO live a free man In no
civilized country Is there less sympathy
between the rich and the poor.
The capitalist Is a tyrant and the
laborer an unwilling slave. The former,
conscious Of the purchasing power Of
money, asks special legislation to make
him richer. He knows tho most power
full argument to convince a politician
or convert an editor to his Jews, and he
uses 1t effectually. Having convinced
the politician that the laborer does not
know what is best for him, the pamper-
ed officeholder arms himself with the
logic of progress" and stoutly main
talns that the good OF the community
demands that further facilities be given
VI ram Odl iIolopoiitS W btCOIue TlCtlfF.
That style of reasoning may soothe the
conscience, but it never can convince
the mind. The prosperity of the people
cannot be separated from the good Of the
masses.
The advocates of progress" have done
well, il not for the laborer, at Least
for the capitalists, and the working
classe. will not forget it. The power
of labor is in the franchise, and by an
independent and judicious use of it the
minions Of capital can be driven from
place and representatives Of the people
elected to the offices which are to-day
disgraced by hirelings Many of the
working classes are Irishmen or the sons
of Irishmen who left their native land
to seek here employment and a home
But the condition of the workingman In
America is little better than In Ireland
On them falls the weight Of taxation,
which they pay in the increased rents of
their miserable tenements and the. ad-
vanced charges which the storeke1pers
are obliged to charge. The many will
have to assert their rights at the polls
and make the few recognize the fact
that they are not masters but stewards
Of the riches they possess Catholic Her
aid.