The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-15

as much, as in America for the poor.
But the truth is, never was there a
country in which the poor have done so
much for the rich.
The leaders of the revolution of the
new Industry have quite mistaken the
terms OF the contract with society un-
der which they have been hired to do
these great things. Society hired them
to work for society. But the captains
have assumed that all they led in max
ing was to be their own, and that they
willed with their own. They still have
something to learn.
The conservative cries out: "You
are going to destroy society,""
Did 1t destroy society to abolish slav-
cry?
The conservative cries out: "This is
revolution"'
No, it is the remedy.
The revolution has already occurred.
That took place when the mighty
wheels of the new industry whirled
the peasant and his children away
from his little homestead, the artisan
away from his cottage loom and his
village shop and non-competitive
brotherhood, and herded them into
tenement houses and factories. 1t was
the revolution which took the hus-
bandmen, labOrer and artisan out of
the Golden age of the 18th century,
which preceded the new industry
Then living was cheap and men were
dear. The working day in field and
town was but eight hours day. Mas
ter and man both belonged to the
same union, no man could compete
with another of the same fraternity,
and the employe had the same right
to his place that the employer had.
1t is the revolution which has
changed all that.
During the last century has come
the realization of the vision of the an
clent Greek poet who fOresaw time
when 1.-THE shuttle would weave and
Tyre would play of itself"
That is the revolution.
Time was when the judges sent men
to jail for forestalling, cornering the
markets. That was in the dark
ages" Now the money power estab-
fishes trusts" in everything, and our
! judges tell us that the burden of mon
opoly is ''light.''
That is the revolution.
The new industry has broken up the
| brotherhoOdS of the old industry, and
has swung the few strongest and clev-
crest of the workingmen into palaces
and front pewS, so far away from their
old comrades and fellow workers that,
as one of them said: II have no time
to remember their faces, much less
| their names
That is the revolution.
1T is the revolution that has capped
the new industry with the high finance
and tied up the people in the paper
chains OF charters, contracts and stock
exchange securities. THE time is
coming" said the Earl of Derby, not
long ago, when the people of Europe
will repudiate their national debts,
which now take eight hundred million
| dollars year from Them
| This is the revolution
And the gospel of the revolutions is
the doctrine that you can do anything
| with your fellow man provided you do
| it in the market.
The remedy is the new conscience
which says simply that man shall
| never be so much of buyer or seller
as to cease to be a brother, and that
| labor shall not be made a market
| thing.
! Before us is the practical question.
What is the next step?
The next step, like the first step, is
more liberty for the laborer. His
emancipation still invokes us. Con-
science has freed him from frightful
abuses, but frightful abuses remain.
His growth is not yet full and free.
| Civilization groans under the evils of
the revolution wrought by the new in
dustry and it's philosophy. The de-
nunciation by our prophets, the out
cries of the farmer and the working
men. the attempts to regulate factor
les, railroads, mines, tenementS, in
FAINT labor, are all confessions of the
impotence Of the system which pro-
duced these ills to remedy them. A
gospel of hatred is rising in classes and
masses which hates employers, hates
employees, hates household service,
hates household servants, hates for
unions, hates the grangerS, hates re-
form, hates politics. All these are
symptoms of high fever. But new
mankind has been conceived and will
be born-a winged beauty out of the
earth measuring WOrm-Which will not
know force, and fraud land hatred and
will let love, their natural tie, bind
men and nations together. The prac-
tical work Of today is to abolish the
cannibals of competition, warriors of
supply and demand, tyrants of mon
| opOly, monsters of the market, devour-
erS of men, women and children, buy
ers and sellers of life. The progress of
humanity, says Emerson. consists in
the recognition of the truth that
every private and separate good is de-
fusion. Property, capital, and money
making as now permitted are still SyS-
TENS of man hunting. Monopoly is
force, and force is slavery, and slavery
| must be abolished. A lover of birds
| Maurice Thompson, tells us that as he
wanders through the southern forests
he knows afar off when he is nearing a
human habitation by the songs of the
birds near the cabin, which declare to
all the world, by a special tenderness
OF tone, that they love man and have
made their nest near his. The heart
of men is not less than the heart of
the bird.
Churches come and go, but there has
ever been but one religion. The only re-
ligion has been that which clears off
one by one from the face of man the
earth stains that hide the God i'm
rrisoned in the flesh, which breaks
down one by one every barrier which
| incarnation has put in the way of the
| God within in the likeness of the God
without.
The Deadly Parallel.
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