The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-17
MANS COLUMN.

the Adam and Eve tragedy was taken
from older sources, much the same as
Shakespeare took his plots from older
sources. That this unknown Genesis
dramatist made bowling success of his
little play no one can doubt who has
given the mater the slightest attention.
For his little play has not been taken as
spesre's are taken, to be critically
scanned and thought over, the good DC
cepted, the ill rejected, but swallowed
whole, just as written, and as if written,
too. by the great self-giving Spirit of the
universe itseli.
4 And truly the audacity of the scheme
and the way it is worked up is enough
to impose upon humanity just as it has
done. Alb, zee, all through the ages labor
and woman have ever been called ugly
names, degraded, down-trodden be-
meath the heel of the monopolist-by
whatever name it is the fashion to call
this parsonage. In the Adam and Eve
tragedy the unknown Genesis dramatist
makes the Great Spirit play the part of
the REFRESHING nopolist-diabolical
is it not? while it dubs poor labor, on its
belly then az now, "the serpent" and
declares that il is more subtitle than
any beast of the field" A lie, may we
not cay, on the face of tin the light
OF today-for who less subtle, less on to
the tricks of monopoly, than this same
bent-over, toil-encrusted, toil-quenched
labor-unless it be woman.
Yes, indeed, this little play by the
unknown Genesis dramatist has been in
truth a bowling success; hiss vertically
for untold ages played the devil with
both labor and woman. And why
should it not. with it's stnpsndous; over
reaching, subtle audaeity and men
dscity. 1t is EASY to see that then as
now monopoly sowed dissension in the
ranks of labor-woman's other name is
labor, travail then as now, labor was
put down lest it might come to know
and distinguish between good and evil,
leet it also take OF the tree of life. Oh,
the pity OF it, that both labor and
women are still shut out OF the garden
Of Eden while the flaming sword of the
monopolist still turns every way to keep
from them "the tree OF life."
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In December, 1861, President Abra-
ham Lincoln sent to congress one OF his
memorable messages, from which we
quote the following:
"There is one point, with it's connec-
tons, to which L ask a brief attention.
1t is the effort TO place capital on an
equal footing with, If not above, labor
in the structure of our government.
Labor is prior to and independent of
capital. Capital is only the fruit of
labor, and could never have existed if
labor had not fret existed. Labor is
the superior to capital, and deserves
much the higher consideration. In my
present position l could hardly be justi
fed were to omit raising warning
voice against this approach OF returning
despotism. Monarchy itself is some
times limited at as possible refuge from
the power of the people,"
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Precedence-There is town in Old
Virginia, it is said, that has no res pect
for person or idea that is not hun
dred years old, yet it baasts Of being one
of the oldest places and unprecedented
in Importance of location and having
been the home of so many +. f. VS.. 1t
is needless to say there are no old maids
there, few widows and no widowers.
They all belong to the old style of
thought and still believe in slavery, state
rights and survival OF the few to the
detriment of the many. So much ia
their opposition to progress they have
never consented for q locomotive to
steam into their burg. devitalizing their
air made sacred by the memory of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison. Randolph,
and the great sympathizer, La Fay ette.
So the whistle of the engine, several
miles away, is all the evidence that
many of these pristine inhabi know
OF the moving, and as they think, of the
corrupt world beyond their normal sight
and mental vision. Ignorance ia bliss to
them, and to change their life is to ere.
ate misery, if not induce death. For
tunately for the world, as we'll as these
retired civilians, the rest OF mankind ia
not dependent on them for subsistence.
The uprising OF women, as they call it,
when, by some invisible medium, the
news reaches those unsophisticated
folks, it is lust another Yankee notion"
to disturb the peace, introduce discor-
dant elements into old settled condi-
tons. The women are happy, they say,
and do not give them any trouble; why
harass them; away with those peace
destroying ideas, we will have none Of
them. They like to think OF the days Of
Jefferson, and could he materialize and
come down from his tomb on the
heavenly mountain, Monticello, he
wonld find these double F. V's in
statu quo and their town to him as
but Yesterday since he left it. They are
"good Democrats" and think they are Of
the genuine Jeffersonian type, but they
would recol even now if their townfolks
demanded rights that had not been in
corporated by their fathers; and so far
back is their responsibility located that
they do not contemplate any improve
ment in their generation and are willing
as a patriotic duty to let their ancestors
bear all the honor and credit for the
germ of true liberty. They have been
great land owners and they know some
thing is the matter with the political
machine but they can't soil their family
names by mixing in the vulgar crowd Of
their fellow beings and becoming a mere
tool OF government. They love to think
of the old time statesman but the modern
politician they hate. The unprecedented
strike of their ancestors was glorious
work, good for them and good for US to
live by, but they lived and died for all
time. 1t is startling to western mind.
reused up to the present necessities and
stirring conditions that are forcing them
selves into notice, and these crystallized
ideas of former demands and departed
relations make US think of q professor
who once ssid, "That when q man wss
too old to change, or grow new thoughts
he ought to be-not exactly knocked in