Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-04-15
De. M,elYMN.
rae Restored Priest siAnfaIly Champion
ing tsse Cause of the Poor.

rse Restored Priest siAnfaIly Champion
ing ts,e Cause of the Poor.
In close keeping with the newly
aroused consciousness aud cor zcience ~
the people concerning the land question
is the increasing distrust OF and hatred |
for Spectators, Insurers monoPolists
and the so called trusts As the condi-
tons Of life for large MASSES Of people |
become harder and harder, men are per
ceiving that by improper social adjust
ments. and by unwise and unjust, and |
not infreguently corrupt legislation, |
they are becoming juggled and swindled |
out of the enjoyment Of their equal right |
10 labor for a living and TO enjoy the |
full fruits Of what they produce by their
labor. They are feeling more keenly
every day that landlordism, usury, mo
nopoly, special privileges granted By
| charter and by law. are rapidly tending
to reduce the masses Of the people to a
condition of industrial slavery, to make
the rich enormously richer. to concen-
trate the wealth of the country in vast
masses in fewer and fewer hands, to
make the poor poorer, and to reduce the
lowest and largest stratum Of society 70
a condition worse than that of chattel
slaves
The strong language used by Pope Leo
XIII in describing the condition Of the
working masses in his own Europe are
already, sad 10 say. largely applicable to
our own land. There are here already
not few who care not to sing at all. or.
!, if they sing it. sing it much less Justify
than Of old. Hail Columbia, Happy
Land"' The words Of Pope Leo are well
A worth quoting: Workingmen have been
I given over, isolated and defenseless, to
o the callousness of employers and the
greed Of unrcstrained competition. The
h evil has been increased by rapacious
i usury, which, although more than once
!, condemned by the church. is neverthe.
y less. under a different form, but with
e tho same guilt, still practiced by avari
II cious and grasping men. And TO til.
n must be added the custom Of working
= by contract and the concentration of -
t. many branches of trade in the hands o
Is q few individuals, SO that small mum
L. Der of very rich men have been able I,
lay upon the masses Of the poor a yok
little better than slavery itself"
~ simultaneously and in logical keepin
pit with the new consciousness of men, tina
er they are wrongfully deprived Of their OF
C portunity to labor, and consequently O
m the just wages for their labor. is tn
in growing consciousness that they are be
ing robbed and oppressed by the turnin
st over to individuals and TO corporation
up of things that by their very nature Shout
to DO owned and controlled by the orgai
lied people. or, in other words. the GOV
ly, eminent, in trust for the whole peop,,
St 50 that private individuals should receiy
te. no special private benefit from thel
III without a perfectly equivalent return
ter Common workingmen. mechanics. tai
de ors, sailors, printers. self educated jon
Ter nalists who have in their earlier da,
I'd sailed before the mast around the worl
and been doing their thinking in Il
to night watches under the silent stars M
Inter at the printers case. have be,
ler thinking and mentally controverting an
md refuting the stuff that they were prin
wn ing from statesmen and (savs the mari
the political economists; have been cor
led PEELED partly by their own poverty az
bly, still more largely by divine ciii IN
led asm for humanity and sympathy T.
red their still poorer and less fortunate bret
nd rem either to tear to pieces and 10 stan
IN upon some of the orthodox political eco
ent omies or 10 take from them the kernel
be truth which they contained, and to mai
to such stcrnly logical application of the
as to brighten the now wealthy and ho
II ored fashionable lions and pets of artist
ad- cratic drawing rooms from whose no
II est utteranees of poorer and better da
he they have been taken. - Edward NJ
she Glyun,