The Louisiana populist., 1896-11-27
NO.. 15.

the poor miserable prostitutes are
rounded up periodically, like so many
cattle. and are fined to fatten the purse
of public officers. while a small per
cent goes to lighting and paving the
streets where the piouS redeemers
tread.
And the mortgage laws are running
in the same stage of hellish glory.
Usury on every hand. But the church
has grown used TO it-grown and fat
tened on this child of hades: and never
a word is heard against it from the
pulpits.
They spend their time searching the
Bible for the tracks of the devil, whom
they claim to be fighting, while right
in their own door-yard the devifs
tracks are yet so plain and warm that
a blind Christian could easily follow
them, IL he felt like doing so.
All, these Christian warriors seldom
fight any national wrongs. Almost
anything is right in their eyes, so long
as it pays a revenue. They can see
no harm in cornering wheat, or pork.
or oil, or land, or money, even though
thousands Of the miserable poor suffer
and die of want, and all around the
church door reigns a hell of hopeless
hunger. These Christian warriors can
see no harm in it, so long as the church
gets rake-off.
These Christian warriors can see no
sin or crime among those whom GodtC
has blessed with wealth. Among those
whose hearts are as hard as the gran
ite walls of an orthodox hell, and VINO
live to accumulate dollars squeezeo
from the hands Of the toiling poor.
They do all their searching for sin
among those whom the rich have rob-
bed. Those whom God has blessed
with poverty and want God does IL
alb. The crimes and sins of the nicer
ablepoor are searched out and laid bare
before the world. The Christian news
papers are full of their sins every day,
and the police go down among them
to club them about for the glory OF
God and the eternal salvation. OF theiI
souls.
At times some good souls 60 down
among them to distribute tracts. in
which the story of Gods love ID
told them, for the purpose OF max
ing them feel still more miserable,
and to look up to the rich as
the people who have divine right
to build slums where the robbed and
outraged poor can be hidden from the
sight of Gods elect. and hope can
never, never come. All, the deal
Christian nations, Standing ready to
rush their miserable poor into a bloody
conflict In order that the victorious
rich may glut themselves with plunder.
England has a Christian army whose
business is to butcher the heather and
take possession of their land, and even
butcher some other Christian army II
they interfere.
Russia has Christian army to rule
over the government hell at home, and
to gobble a little plunder from the
h~athens when a chance offers.
The whole of Europe is but living
hell for the toiling poor, walled In by
the SO-cdlltu OuIiStldu "a AiASor "hN
force the poor to throw up their handf
while the rotten royalty rob them Of all
but bare existence.
And is il any better in our own coun-
try? Oh, God. these pinched and fur
rowed faces of the wandering poor who
knock at my door and ask for a crust
of bread! What is the church and the
Christian warriors doing for them?
Nothing! And the echo of this cry
goes up to God and rattles against the
frame of high heaven. and the day OF
wrath draws nearer at every rising OF
the sun.
All, you Christian warriors. you are
but camp-followers. and plunderers OF
the miserable poor; you never fight on
the side of the weak and lewly. but are
led by the political butchers who live
but to plunder and fattcn on the blood
of the toiling poor.