The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-10-31


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& What We want and needs must have IS
not tlonal trust to limit production
and add to sthe idle slegions OF labor, but
cond Ytions that vii enable every man to
produce, to. his fullest capacity and enjoy
the nsufruct OF his. endeaVeF to the utter
most farthing. That's the ideal Industrial
system, to the attainment o: which we must
bend all our energies, instead of sitting
sup.nely down III the Serbonian bogs dug
by this Anglo American banker, and wall
|. ing that there's too much world" We
cannot afford to tie fast to any party In
Whose heaven there blazss no star Of hope
which tcallss.a hattie che workfngroan
just AS yhe has seized the genes wand for
the multiplication OF wealth. We have here
"a land capahle Of sustaining five times its
present population, SO rich is it IN natural
resources; yet millions: struggle from the
cradle to the grave for bare subsistence,
while tens Of thousands beg n vain for this
poor privilege. How to break the accursed
spell--to make ut possible for this people
to utilize to the utmost the good gifts Of a
gracious Gods the problem OF problems,
the ride which the American Oedipus
must read or be destroyed; yet Mckinley
ism makes answer the Almighty has ruined
us with his nunffcence! Better that we
should align ourselves WITH tie widest
dreamers and strive ever so bIindly to. re-
move the blight, than to cast in our lot
with those blessed conservatives" who
have naught to- offer but bread boluses al
ready proven abortiye. and who denounce
all who would lead the masses to a higher
plane as alarmists and demagogues! Were
not John the Baptist and Jesus Christ
alarmists in the view Of the eminently con-
sentative sadducees? Did not. George III
and all his 'raost loyal and dutfful subjects
denounce Washington as Jack Caae,
Adams and Jefferson SIS demagogues?
Courage, faint heart! Remember that since
the dawn of human history, every man who
became dissatisfied with existing conditions
however bad; every man who dared cry out
against prescr.ptive right entrenched in
brutal wrong, has been denounced and de-
MED, belittled and be..ed by the blessed
conservatives" Of his day. Surely 1t was
not Intended that any man Of woman born
should sit with folded hands and starve
while all about him the potential wealth OF
nature beckons. There is in heaven a star,
the radiant star Of hope.
'Not in vain the distant beacons; for
ward, forward let us range;
Let the great world spin forever down the
ringing grooves Of change"
do not believe that any possible tinker
ing with the currency can bring about ideal
industrial, conditions; but the abolition OF
the single gold standard will be step in
the right direction. 1t VIII be a'second De-
claration of Independence, timely warn
ing to all the world that Uncle Sam has
outgrown his financial leading strings and
assumed the management Of his own at
fairs. 1t will be an impressive notice to.
the little knot of miliionaires who have SO
long been taking exorbitant toll in so many
different ways of American labor, that the
masses are hell bent on Industrial eman-
citation. Having demonstrated their abll-
.ty to secure what they want, despite the
organized opposition Of monpolies and
trusts, the people will be encouraged to IN
dertake other and more important reforms.
We know taht there Is something radically
wrong, and that, If the gold standard did
not cause our Ills it has done nothing to
cure them. We have learned by sad ex-
perience that it IS no commercial palladium
or industrial deity 1t is an idol whose
impu:ssance for good has been amply
proven, its capacity for evil strongly sus-
pected. We know that at its shrine wor-
shin those who fatten on the fruits OF
others toll; that it's chief priests and Lee
yites are the great money lords, the pro-
tective tariff beneficiar.es; the wreckers OF
railways the sworn enemies of labor unions,
the managers of trusts and monopol1es.
the dardanar: who gamble In life's neces-
saries, and the newspapers who pander 10
the plutocracy, fake up coats of-arms LOT
uaryenus and prove their un-Americanism
by bowling down with a noisy alteration
before every petty two by four prlncellng
and diseased dukeling.. If we may judge
idols, as men, by the company they keep,
then indeed are we justified in laying the
;conoclastic hammer to the golden calf.
Perchance it's fall will serve as a warning
to the house Of Have, that Labor, winch
hewed this nation out of the wilderness,
is still it's lord and ready to enforce It's
r:rhts--that the workman can no longer be
hooaooed s hunbugged and driven with
contumely from a table which groans be-
meath the viands wrung from" the earth,s
hosom in the sweat Of his brow.