Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-29

tween capital and labor shall prevail
throughout the land forever"
o, ye wandering tribes of Israel! the
Garden of Eden behind you, and this
Promised Land ahead; a land not flow
inG with milk and honey, but flowing
with molten lava: the mountains of
which are mountains of cinders and
ashes, on which rest pillars of cloud by
day and by night, hiding the light of
sun and stars, and intensifying the
lurid glare of the fires of He'll that
belch flame from every furnace mouth.
And this is to be the outcome of 18th
century civilization; this the City of
the New Jerusalem!
Iron, "the fundamental basis upon
which modern civilization rests" True
Mr.. Hewitt, undoubtedly true. Baal is
your God; and in his service you are
rapidly changing this fair world into an
unspeakable hell; valley of Jehosa-
plat "strewn with the wreck of dead
mems bones," and murdered souls. But
what do "the false priests who preach
| for hire" have to say to your candid as
sertion that iron, and not the Sermon
on the Mount, is the fundamental basis
on which their ecclesiastical systems
rest? Labor Tin chains p and christian
| ity dressed in broadcloth) marching
hand in hand, from ocean to ocean,
from the gulf to the lakes, and guided
by "the light of furnace answering to
furnace''-what a sublime spectacle!
1t were easy to imagine Zeus, the Faith
er of Gods and men, looking down,
well-pleased on the beatific vision; the
fruit of the wonderful progress" of the
most enlightened age of which his
tory bears record" The only reason,
however, it seems, why christianity Tin
bToadcloth) is expected to go marching
hand in hand with Labor Tin rags is
that it may play the part of police
man, and preserve the peace between
Capital and Hunger. Homes, of which
human nature may be proud" will clus-
ter about the mouths of these ''fiery
furnaces" in which are manufactured
the fundamental basis of modern civili-
zation, warships, cannon, etc. The
schoolmaster, the preacher and the
physician, the three chief ornaments of
cur present social life, will continue
their stay among us, presumably as
their services will be more than ever
in demand in the healing. or attempted
healing, of the diseased bodies, minds
and souls of men.
And this man Hewitt, and his class,
arc looked upon as sane men, as the
only sane men; while those who rea-
lize the godlessRess and horror of the
state of things which he presents as
picture of heaven, are styled cranks.
Verify, the Bible is right-the Devil is
the Prince of this World, and he is the
great Deceiveri
Were we to awaken an Athenian OF
the time of Phideas from his mauso-
leum, and take him with eyes to see and
ears to hear and nostrils to smell into
Pittsburg or Birmingham, or any other
manufacturing center, would he not
ask us, in stupefaction, under what
curse of the gods had the earth fallen
that mankind should dwell in such
hideous clamor, such sooty darkness,
such foul stencheS, such defiled and i'm
prisoned air? He would survey the be-
grimed toilers of the mills and looms,
the pallid women, the stunted offspring,
the long lines OF hideous houses, the
soil ankle deep with cinder dust, the
skies pail of lurid smoke, the country
scorched and blackened and accursed
he would survey all this, say, asking
, by what malediction of heaven and
what madness of mankind the sweetest
and chief joys of nature had been
, ruined and forgotten thus? He would
behc.a the dwarfed trees dying under
the fume of poisonous gases; the clear