The advocate., 1895-05-15

lands they actually cultivated had they never al
lowed any title but use-any lam title-to become
recognized and protected or had they kept no Phs-
raoh for the purpose of protecting law titles Money
is always scarce 1t is essential to its value and its
power that it shall never be plentiful Hence, gov
ernment, which is an organization of the rich to
plunder the multitude always claims the exclusive
right of making money and of saying how much of
it there shall be- It is always controlled by class,
and the people must obtain it from that class which
stands like Joseph: Give your CATTLE, Give your
land, and finally, 'GiVe your bodies l trust you
now begin To see why all the revolutions of the past
have been Of no benefit to the common people.
They have never overturned the two mOnopolies-
monopoly of the earth and monopoly of the exchange
of the fruits of industry, monopoly of land and
money"
'It is very discouraging, 1 am quite certain that
people would not be willing, should we win now, to
abolish the right to own land not used by the owner
Most of them would like to be landlords if they had
chance; and ey-lenders, too l fear. But what
shall those of us who wish to help the people do?
Have you plan~
"Teach the people, and stop with that. Have
nothing to do with stirring up revolutions which are
to end in nothing but misery. You can never &C.
cOmplish any substantial change by means of any
kind of organization to accomplish changes You
are an orator. mydear Sydney, and man given to
profound reflection. Therefore, preach political
change but do not attempt to organize the people to
attempt it,
"Mere preaching till doomsday can do no good.
Words must become acts in order to effect reVolu-
tions Arms will not yield to words, however elo.
quent. A Charles 1 must be met by Cromwell.
George III did not yield to Otis and Patrick Henry.
A thousand copies of Paines pamphlet Common
Sense would not have moved Cornwallis. There
is, for such men, more convincing argument in a few
thousand determined bayOnets than in all speeches
since Demosthenes all the books since Moses"
'Is it SO? Cromwell met Charles, it is true, but
what brought Cromwell into the field? What made
Engshmen rebels and thus gave Old Ironsides an
armyP Who or what but the orators and pamphlet
eers who proceeded him? And it would have been
we'll if he had let the orators and the pamphleteers
finish the work they had so well begun. He organ
ized the Revolution and what was the result? That
organization fought on lower ground than would
have been taken by the people acting spontaneously
agitation of great and benefcent changes was stied
by the exgencies of the organized movement; and
so poverty remained as it had been notwithstanding
the revolution, while Cromwell was harsher to the
CurDulenC poor Cnan CnarleS naQ Deen. a lew years
more preaching would have brought greater change
than Cromwell sought. Your American Revolution
was rapidly developing on lines broader than ever
had been thought of by preachers of revolution till
then. In proof of this what need l more than the
preamble ofyour Declaration of Independence That
preamble was an echo of the preaching in Galilee.
1t was Christ's voice lifted up on new continent
centuries after Calvary. But aas that very Decara
ton organized the revolt and the sublime uttersnces
of that preamble were heard of no more The Dec
lsration dwinded to mere proclamation that Brit
ish sovereignty was renounced. All your orators and
writer's got organized, and henceforth preached
nothing not palatabe to the organization as whole.
Why, had Jeffersons daring ideas threatened to be-
come the leading ideas of the revolution, Washing
ton and others would have sheathed their swords or
turned them against their countrymen So the JEFF |