The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-16
HENRYL. CALLS BOOK
He Tells About ssThe Coming Rev
olution."
QUOTATIONS FROM IT.
The Book Is In an Entertaining Styl
and Well Written.

The Book Is In AN Entertaining style
and Well Written.
Henry L Call's book, &The Coming
Revolution" published by the Arena pub
fishing company, has reached Topeka and
there is considerable local interest in it,
where Mr.. Call is we'll known, having
practiced law here for several years. The
book is written in clear aud agreeable
style, is forcible and to the point, and is
quite a revelation to many who did not
know that Mr.. Call was of literary tastes
or was writer of any kind The fol-
| lowing are extracts from the book:
III we accept the doctrine, now so
| often preached. that the present melan-
choly condition of society is necessary to
its development and progress, mankind
must seem to US in the situation of the
early martyrs who journeyed to heaven
through affiiction and death. We, how
ever, no longer admit the necessity of
| martyrdom; we have come to regard it
| as the result of human ignorance and in-
tolerance, and believe that salvation is to
be won by other means. So, too, there
are those who nave come to charge the
wretchedness and warfare now every
where existing among men to their in
stitutions instead of to any wise or bene-
ficent provision for their future; they
deny either the necessity or benefit of
the hardships the great mass of mankind
| now suffer. and demand that these hard
ships be at once remedied.
"The remedies proposed are various.
Some insist upon relief by Legislation
more or less radical, others upon the
sweeping change of existing institutions.
as by socialism, and still others upon the
entire destruction of all institutions, as
by nihilism. ALI, however, agree that
somewhere and somehow, the institu-
tions under which men live are at fault,
and should be reformed.
X
"The condition of the toiling masses of
society has been truly described as d
struggle for existence. The wage-labor-
er, dependent upon his days toll in the
service of others for living, the farmer,
whose exertion procures from the soil
his means of subsistence, and they whose
labor in the trades and in business OBJ
tains for them a livelihood, are all alike
engaged in this struggle. Without other
means of subsistence, they must work if
they would live; they cannot rest from
their toll, for with all their exertions
they are continually harassed to make
ends meet, and are compelled to RIM in
have to work, but the constant grind to
earn every dollar they can, which makes
the struggle for existence so intense;
work is not itself so unwelcome, but it is
the anxiety. poverty and wreJchedness
which is everywhere the lot of labor,
that causes men to look with sullen dread
and revolt upon this struggle.
in another sense, too, the condition
of the toiling masses is a struggle for ex-
IL =, Ill
bit also uncertain; however meager their
subsistence, this is ever precarious;
theirs is contest for very life in which
many fail. Each recurring crisis shows
how thin are the walls of chance which
ever divide success, in this struggle,
from failure. Then it is that the mer-
chant and mechanic fail in business, the
farmer loses his farm, and penniless and
burdened with debt they together sink
to the condition of wage-laborers; mean
while their ruin has also driven labor
out of employment, and the ranks of the
unemployed, always full, swollen from
these various sources, become now so
crowded that all cannot hope to obtain
positions; a competition ensues in which
some must inevitably fail. However re-
mote the tramp and pauper of society
may seem from their more fortunate fell
lows, they have but failed in the COM
mon struggle. Nor is the fault alto
gether theirs.
"The world is large'enough for all, but
everywhere nnoccupied-withheld from
use. It is, too. so bountiful, that if labor
is but allowed to exert itself for a brief
season, the cry is raised of over produc-
ton, the markets are glutted, mines must
be closed, mills must be shut down, and
| labor must be turned out of employment
because there is no demand for its pro-
ducts. Nor was the labor of man ever
more effective than now. Machinery
has come to its aid, and with it he can
accom- plish SO much in every branch of
production that labor itself is becoming
| superfuous- drug on the market; man
| is crowded out of the field of industry
| because his labor has become too eff
| ficient Surely, when the world is large
enough for all; when its bounty more
than suffices for all the wants of man,
and when his labor is only too efficient
in procuring the satisfaction of his wants
surely, in face of these facts, the posi-
ton of man in the world cannot be held
responsible for his woes; want and
wretchedness cannot be preached as the
necessary and natural lot of man.
X
s'Men have pretty generally come to
think that somehow they have missed
the substance of freedom. and found only
It's shadow. This conviction is manifest
in the fermenT everywhere existing in
the minds of men upon all questions of
public concern. 1t is seen in the constant
change OF political parties, showing a
dissatisfaction with the measures and
accomplishment of each while in power.
It is seen in the wide spread of socialism,
condemning existing institutions. and of
nihilism, demanding the destruction of
all institutions, as vicious and oppressive.
1t is, furthermore, seen in the present
popular movement, springing up among
the rural populations, and having a
strong following from all labor ranks,
extending over the entire country and
many states and congressional districts,
notwithstanding its doctrines are antag-
| onistic To recaivad nntions and axnari-