The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-03

Curse their sculs. II they keep on break
ing the laws and splitting on-tHe people
they will find enough just such broken.
hearted, simple-mfnded fellows of my
stripe to make short work of them. No,
| amt got no more to say and if you
publish half I've todd you you've got
more spunk than William Lloyd Gar
ris0n."
Muttering p few curses ...the old
wounded soldie. walked away. ..He gave
his blood 20 save his countTy.sbd-day
his country denies him the opportunity
to earn a living and. drives his daugh-
ter to what is worse than death.
Walking into the postofice the jour
nal man saw an old woman writing on
postal card, but after she would write
each word she had to stop aud wipe
the tears from her eyes. She FIRST re-
sented being asked the cause OF her sor-
row. but after being assured she was
talking to friend explained that she
had raised family of three bright
boys, but all were now dead, and that
although they once owned their own
home and store, doing prosperous
business. the millionaire's department
store had caused their failure, and now
she and her aged invalid husband were
about to be separated and sent to two
different charitable houses for the aged.
My youngest boy killed himself by over
work trying to make the business so
and when he saw we were all going
under in spite of his efforts. he lay
right down on his bed and died in de-
lirious fever. And to think after los
ing all our children and working hard
all our lives we must now be separated
in our old age. and be sent to different
institutions among strangers! On!
My God it is too much, ] wish l were
dead toow t
When asked II she thought God was
| to blame for her misfortune she an
swered "Oh, no: He made the world
big enough and rich enough for all"
Then why is this world filled with so
much pain and wretchedness?" con-
tinued her interrogator. 81 don't know"
she sobbed. as it not all the fault OF
those who monopolize the world and
deny the poor the right to earn their
liying?" The poor woman looked up in
blank amazement. She had been their
in church led by Pharisees, who
had never suggested that Gods King
dom was possible on this earth, or that
the. present hell is the result Of social
and political crimes and so she only
shook her old aching head-she could
not understand. The idea that the
benefit Of progress and Invention be-
longsd to al alike. and that every man.
woman and child in the world might
enjoy an abundance OF all the good
things of life had never occurred to her.
The poor thing had cried. "Oh, my
God" in her misery, never realizing
that God had given her a world OF un-
limited beauty and delight, which had
forcibly been taken from her by the
ruling classes: that these people waste
enough in one brutal feast to save the
lives of a hundred hungry women and
children: that single families squander
in useless ostentation weekly what
would give comfort, peace and plenty
to neighborhood and that these things
are crimes for which the perpetrators
must not only answer to heaven but
for which they shall very soon have to
answer to an enreged and determined
people. .TTEs - HE
The victims of social injustice will be
interviewed from time to time by tho
Journal man and their suggestions pub
lished as TO how existing social canni-
balism can be abolished, how each in
dividual can be most useful in quench-
ing the flames of our earthly hell and
overcoming the two-legged devils who
now poison the stream Of human life.