The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1895-06-12


withsuch resistless power tina neither
the edicts of cars nor the tyranny of
kings could suppress II.
But scarcely had these two great
1 Questions been settled by The estab.
lishment and operation of our govern
ment until, 81 reason 81 the infen-
tion Of labor saving machinery and
the enormously increased power Of
i production, a new and third epoch
was ushered in, the Industrial
j Epoch. In this, new conditions, and
new forces have arisen, and, ais d re-
Esult, anew tyranny Is now threate ding
MS, the tyranny Of organized capigalsl
The oppression Of kings orof pamp(red
ecclesiasts cannot tie more onefDus
/ than the tyranny OF organized greed,
i This power has developed with such
wonderful rapidity that we have not
Yet become awakened To the fullreal-
! ization of its magnitude and the seri-
Gus danger that now threatens us. We
are standing to-day on the verge DC a
chasm from whose foul depths the pln-
1inoas mutterings of discomfort and
civil unrest are pouring. In its yawn-
ing abyss nestle the black and jagged
points on which hopeless nations long
have been impaled. The deep hush
4 of inactivity broods overou land and
us broken only occasionly by the tioter's
din and the wild clamor Of the hu +
CRY and unemployed. Here staRas
the marble mansion within whose
!. walls luxury spreads her sumptu0as
feasts, yet the shadow of its towers
rest upon the Windowless hoavels I OF
want. There stands the factory still
1sand gloomy, its warehouses packed
lswith the necessities of life yet at its
doors stand hungry children shiyering
in rags and begging for bread, while
anxious fathers and pale and hungry
mothers stand beside them pleading
for employment. The world, enrich
ed by thousands of generations of
! toilers, has reached a fertility that
can give to every human being a plen-
ty 5undreamed of even inB Utopia.
But between this plenty ripening on
| the boughs Of our civilization and the
people Whojare hungering for it, stand.
the cornerers,' the syndicates,, the
trusts, and the combinations raising
the cry OF aoyerproduction, too
much of everything. Holding back
the riches of earth, sea and sky from
the people who famish and freeze in
the dark, they declare to them that
there is too much food and warmth
and light. They assert the right for
| their own private gain to regulate the.
consumption by the people Of the nee-
Eessaries of life and TO control produe-
tion, not by the needs of humanity,
hut by the impulses of theirown usl-
governed and inhuman greed Wh3tI
tyranny is more CALLING or oppfessis Il
than that which dictates to- m{n
how much OF the necessaries Of lie
/ he and his family shall consume,
or how much clothing he shall place
upon the backs of his shiVering chill
drenS? Says Alexander Hamilton !:
| a power over a mans subsistence
amounts to a power over his WILL"
and he might have added that a pow
er over d mans will amounts toAa
power over his body, which is naste>y
on the one hand and slavery on tie
other. The world never had too mut Iii
| Ito wear, nor too much to eat. Tie
Ircry of soyerproduction' is never ma lie
by the consumer, but is always ma de
by the = cornerer"and combinations
when the cry becomes too great for
them to control prices. /
Thus we see that the labor prob
lem of our day bears precisely tne
same relation to industrial society,
that the former religious and poliai-
cal questions bore to the Church and
| State. The establishment Of religi-
Gus and political equality has led to
the demands for social and economic
equality. The democ atizationE of
church and State, has rendered iEey-
liable the characterization of property.
But democracy in wealth does not
mean communism which denies i adj
| yidual rights in property any more
than democracy in religion means
Atheism. or democracy in politics
means Anarchy. IT SIMPLY means such
! a reform or Reorganization Of the pres
ent social and economic system as
1 shall prevent capital from forming a
new tyranny in the world, and shall
secure to every man an equitable pro-
/ portion of the material goods which
1 his labor helps to creates on an appor-
Etionment Of we'll being according to
labor performed. In other words,
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