The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-27
LABOR DEPARTMENT
HON. THOs. H. LUCAS, EDITOR.

ings of nature governing the universe,
showing the interdependence of mankind.
The few cunning and Shrewd turned every
good not to satisfy their real wants, but
10 crafty the lowest form of intelligence
the vanity of ostentation and cruelty of
power.
In the very first grouping Of weak fami-
hes into tribes for defense against the
strong families men, instead of using their
power gained by association in mutual help
In production frittered most of it away in
the manufacture of warlike implements for
conquest and war, the murder of the strong
and enslavement of the weak.
Then the tribes grew into nations founded
on slavery. The captains headed by a
king; the masters, by the aid Of the cum
ming jugglers and conjurers called priests.
claiming divine power and rights, and
lived in wanton luxury on the toll of the
captlveS taken in war; the toiling sweating
producers Of the wealth of the nation
hungry, clothed in rags and hardly shell
tered in rude huts from the weather; whip
ped into submission or killed, while the
non-producer wasted the product Of the
worker in gaudy colors, gluttony and
drunkenness. show frivolity and noise; an
intelligent use of the united effort of the
people that might have been a blessing, by
violation Of natures laws became a curse
The civilization founded on superstition and
cnattel slavery strewed the world with the
preaching walls of ruined cities, to give
place to new civilization founded on par
tial slavery, enforced by superstitious Chris
t1anity and military power-a strange COM
pound of fraud called feudalism
But under this system there was q
marked Improvement over the other form
OF civilizations; the church looked after the
people and protected the serf from too
great a tyranny of the kings and mobiles
IN order that they might plumber them in
somewhat lighter and more Christian
manner themselves. The noble had to al
low the serf enough of the product of his
labor to feed and clothe him in as economi-
cal manner as was consistent with the
proper physical development of a. person
ueStned to do military service and butcher
his fellow mantle serfs and retainers of
another noble lord. But this form of civil
llzatlon soon worked towards large empires
more concentration Of power and wealth,
independence of the church and consequent
oppression and ruin Of the worker; at this
critical time gunpowder, and the printing
press were invented, and America discov-
cred; this changed the whole scheme of
robbing labor. The printing press made
education accessible to ALL openinp tho
avenues of invention and production, ant
promoting new methods of exchange intro.
ducing new schemes of absorbing produc-
ton without labor called business! The
new obstructive force of gunpowder enab-
ling the peasant to kill king changed
the form of government from open force
fraud. While America gave free scope for
speculative enterprise and the full develop
ment of capitalistic government
The stranger paused a moment, as If to
impress on Owen to the utmost what he
said. At length he spoke, saying: "Simon
Owen pay attention to every word I shall
utter Let them burn themselves into your
memory, for in them will he pointed cut
how to found a permanent civilization
founded on natural law. / am an old man.
and can hope to do but little in irving to
build up a new civilization founded on lust
principles. You have been chosen to do
this work for two reasons; first, because
you, In your ignorance, fastened this ca
tastrophe by teaching the oppressed toilers
the Internal doctrine of destructive social
ism, teaching that in order to have a BET
ter form of government the old must be |
suddenly destroyed; to do this the Ignorant
and the vicious must be left untaught and
the shrewd commercial schemer left nm
checked to bride officials to make laws
giving the powers and functions of govern !
ment into their hands to be used to fleece |
the workers, corrupting even the professors
IN the colleges to write lying laws OF trade
and by misnomer fool the people by call !
ing 1t the science of political economy. as |
though to have universal good we must |
nave universal bad. Nature tells us on |
every hand that good and bad exist to- |