The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-11
A MINISTER OF THE CONGREt4A-
TIONAL CHURCH SPEAKS OUT.
PRAY GOD FOR MoRE St1f,H

By Rev. c. c. Walker. Sherburne, Mimi.
How very frequently We meet with tbs
expression 'The old avery Gays" and thus
have our minds turned back upon the
gloomy pages If history, pages filled with
dark deeds wrought out through separa-
tons of families at auction-block ana So
cial denominations among yilainous whites
and helpless blacks, causing first Il heat
ed sensation in the region of the heart,
then a sense or SladneSs that the great
Lincoln, as the successor of John Brown,
said to the chatel slave go free!'
Command the best English and with its
use let the highly wrought imagination
picture the Wickedness of slavery as it
was. detail the horrors that marked its
BLACK belt' and stir the blood with po-
etc rectals Of villanous, yea fendish at
tempts at political defense of the hellish
lnstitution-then pause. reinforce the reas-
oning powers with a stearn resolve to ap-
ply the same ethical rulings to the new
slavery by which the old slavery was and
is condemned
There can be no logical or ethical defense
made for Afro-Amercan slavery other
than defense of the policy and politics OF
he'll; and in the application of the princ-
pies of manly duty, on the side of the
strong, and manly rights the part of
the weak, the basis is found for proclaim
ing liberty to the bond-slave and asserting
opportunity for the wage-slave.
The chattel slave was assured Of some
thing to eat, place to sleep and an OPEN
ing for work next day. and if only market
sense actuated the owner the black slave
would have some guarantee that he need
not tramp from town to city and from
city to seaboard begging privilege to
saw wood for buiscuit: hard sense In
operation was some defense Of the phys
ioal demands of the slave of the "old slav-
cry days.
But times have changed. A tariff that
was supposed to protect the American Ian
bringing 40
with him ship-loads of men whose prOtec-
ton was their liberty of contract" which
guaranteed them work at the stipulated
price-a price beneath the tariff-protected-
wage-and while enliching capitalists by
virtue Of their hold upon raw materials.
tariff projections, and liberty -of-contract-
wages the protected laborer was turned
loose upon the bare plains of natures field
Of liberty and driven about by the stern
law Of hunger--his own and his depen-
dents-he was not permitted to work in
order Ito eat tof which law Paul makes
mention) or in the words of Burns
See yonder poor, oer-labored wight.
SO abject, mean and vile,
Who begS brother of the earth
TO give him leave to toll
If the wage-slave secures his position for
such time to obtain a little home i'm
medately that is paid for his wages drop.
and his choice is between accepting the
lowered wages and pinchIng on at home. or
taking to the road" TO become another
competitor for the few open jobs that only
remain open for lower bids from liberty
of-contract' wageslaves.
Some months since the coal-helds shut
down operations and turned adrift hum
dreds Of these slaves-the plea being over
production Ga term that certainly originat-
ed in helD, and now in the swapping days
Of winters frost the local dealers tell Us
that"coal is going up and assign as the
reason, shortage of supplies for the seas
on those
Where are the iron-worke:s now? and the
hOuse-buiders? and the cashiers of broli-
On banksf Good Times Banks with
capital letters. ard where shall the wage
slave prove industrious and wherewHh
the substance Of his industry to buy
meat?
These arc the days when the farmer
begs for market for his produce and the
laborer legs for market for his labor;
these are the promised days OF returning
prosperity which prosperity seems yet IL
long way olive are waiting for relief
and perish while waiting. No man IS as
siIred Of supplies now unless nc has cinch
on the worlds markets or on the Z. S.
prosperity bonds.
The man whose bread depends upon his
Willingness to toll is no more assured of
d biscuit today than is the government as
Sllred of perpetuity through the ruling Of
the observation-disclosures, railroad
trusts. boRd-trusts And the govcrnmen.
is certainly very insecure in the clutchesof
these vampires. They are Ike the shin
ing leecil that does not know enough to
be moderate in his understanding, but
kills his victim outright.
The slavery that drives a man to his
wits end to find the nccessarivs Of life
then failing to obtain tEern--is slavery
with as tiastardly a lasn as any used IN
the old slavery days. The mind Of the
toiler IS not normal under these conditions,
and if the normal pleasure Of life is de-
str0yed in seeking 4 chance to live then is
lie a burden, 4 savish, destroying bur1en.
Let US awaken our dun minds and solve
this problem"
POLK COUNTY ALLIANCE MEETING