The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-12-17

permanent or substantial benefit.
'"There is what the moralists
call "a noble discomfort" which,
not satisfied with wrong, ever
struggles toward higher and bet
ter ideas. This spirit it is that
gave Greece her glory and Rome
her grandeur, and this spirit ii
is that now centres the hopes of
the world upon the Anglo. Saxon
race. The absence of that spirit
it is that constitutes the dark
fatalism of the East, where men
regard themselves as the prey of
fate, their condition as irremedi-
able and their lot but to endure;
the absence of that spirit it is
that has blotted Asia and East
ern Europe, once the home of
civilization, from the pages of
progress, and made the names of
once glorious nations forgotten
memories.
"It is not agitation but pass
i've endurance that is to be fear
ed. But this we have little need
now to fear. 1t is in the nature
of political agaitation once fairly
begun to go on. That they who
have once fairly begun to go on.
That they who have once sine
erely espoused this new religion
of humanity should abandon it.,
is not to be supposed; rather say
that the ranks of the sincere will
be recruited, and that adversely
will, as it has always done, but
strengthen the onward sweep of
reform. Never was there more
opportune time than the present;
every condition, every Indication
points to the beginning of the
twentieth century as the opening
of a new era in human affairs
and hopes. The condition of So
ciety compels it; the great popu-
lar pprising-the upheaval which
now rocks society to it's base
has prepared the way for it; and
the march of mind, which has
already enabled man to subdue
nature to his bidding, now prom
ises by the same process to en-
able him to subdue himself to the
laws of the moral world. The
last and greatest science, that of
society, is but AN easy and nat
ural transition from all the other
sciences which have gradually
and successfully rooted them
selves in law"
This work ought to become
the handbook of the industrial
millions in their struggle for
their fundamental rights based
on justice; it makes the issues so
plain that the dullest intellect
can grasp them; and when once
grasped, the wealth-producers
are not likely to forget the real
issues involved, for they carry
with them justice for the wage
workers, happiness and prosper
ity not for the industrial millions
alone, but for all high born souls.
Earnest men and women should
read and circulate this book in
every community throughout the
republic. 1t is trumpet call to
free men, and it's appearance at
the present crisis in the indus
trial, economic, and political his
tory of the republic is most for
fortunate; for in spite of the
sneers and soothing of the Bene-
dict Arnolds of this land, there
are thoughtful people who are
not bound by prejudice and who
are able to rise above the soph-
istry daily instilled into their
minds by the organs of capital
istic anarchism. We are today
engaged in a struggle with the
1isurer class of Europe far more
momentous to humanity and civ
ilization than was the glorious
struggle of the Revolution, and
l may add also, far more danger
Gus, because it is the serpent in
stead of the lion with which we