The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-04

comfortably fed and accommodated"
Satisfied Was I not just telling You
despied it? But, then, to come back to this
point-we were on this liberation business.
l don't think my feelings about slavery are
peculiar. l find many men who, in their
hearts, think of it Just as l do. The land
groans under it; and, bad as it is for the
slave, it is worse, ii anything, for the mas.
ter. 1t takes no spectacles to see that o
great class of vicious, improyident, degrad-
ed people, among us, are an evil to us, rs
well as to themselves. The capitalist aud
dristocrat Of England cannot feel that as wt
do, because they do not mingle arjh the class
| they degrade as te do. They are in our
houses, they are the associates of our chill
dren, and they form their minds faster than
we can; for they are a race that children al.
ways will cling to and assimilate with. Il
Eva now, was not more angel than ordinary,
she would be ruined. We might as well
allow the smallpox TO run among them
| and think our children would not take 1T,
as to let them be uninstructed ard vicious,
and think our children will not be affected
by that. Yet our laws positively and ut
terly forbid any efficient general education
al system, and they do it wisely, too; fol-.
just begin and thoroughly educate one gen
Grafton, and The aohOle thing arOuld be UoCn
SKI high. If we did not give them liberty,
they would take it,
"'And what do you think will be the end
of this?' said Miss ophelia.
so don't know. One thing is certain
that there is a mastering among The masses,
the world over; and there is a dies irG COM
ing on, sooner or later. The sam thing is
working in Europe, in England, and an this
country. My mother used to tell me of a
millennium that was coming, when Christ
should reign, and all men should be free
and happy. And she taught me, when l
was a boy, to pray, Thy kingdom come
Sometimes / think all this signing, and
groaning, and stirring among the dry bones
fortells what she used to tell me was ON
ing. But who may abide the day of His
appearing?''
Old Abolition Republicans, read that
over again and turn to last weeks RE
CORD and read the Hazard circular
and see how they correspond. Your
apostle of freedom, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, wrote that Al years ago, and
could she have given a truer or more
heart rendering picture of to-day?
You may make the life-blood of man
flow in cardinal streams from his head
to the feet with a slave-driyer's lash.
You may tear mans flesh to the bone
with the teeth of the blood hounds, but
if you feed and clotbe him, he will keep
soul and body together, soon recover
and be a man fit for labor.
But deprive man of work, of the
means of getting money, with which to
buy food and you starye him to death.
You take his life when you take the
means whereby lie lives You aus
man, wife and children TO loose hope,
pine, famiSh and die; the soul and body
TO separate. One 10 return to earth,
the other to meet its God. Is not the
white slavery of the aristoerats and
capitalists a worse scene than black
slavery? Is not PlMocracy a harder
master than the black slave owner2
Shall not The IONS of Pluto, the giver of
wealth and the god Of the lower world,
who wear helmets which: renders them
invisible, have the mask torn from their
faces and be driven from the halls OF
administration, legislation and justice
in this country?
Eight thousand men out of work In
your neighboring city of Wilmington
and tens of thousand idle walking the
streets of Philadelphia, with wives and
children home furnishing, starving for
the products of the Jersey farms, which
are now sold for less than living prices,
because the gold gamblers of Wall st.
and the National Bankers have robbed
the people of their money and struck
down industry to satisfy their Shylock
greed. Yes, you need not go to a neigh
boring city, but look at the men walk
ing your own streets idle, no work, no
one wants them to work, no II las
money to employ them, asking for mon
ey, asking for work, their families in
need of food, starving if the merchant
does not trust them, the merchant be-
ing driven to bankruptcy by doing so,
a man who lost work, no money, no
hope, nothing to live for, commits sui
eide.
The %capitalistic white slave drivers
think nothing of it as they do not live
with them and come in contact with
them as the black slave owners did.
Last week you read of the a%ristocratic
Whitney Vanderbilt wedding, in a
royal palace at Newport costing nearly
a million and in the luxurious splendor
of a ''gold room" furnished with trap.
ping costing thousands. To-day in
Massachusetts you may see going up
another royal mansion on an estate of
1000 acres for these young millionaires
to live in the lap of Incidence and lux
ury. They never think of the starving
thousands, but their parental guardians
are striving to increase the value of
their stocks, bonds, interest, dividends
and gold by maintaining the gold stand
ard.
You old Abolition-R Republicans, you
prayed to God for the del~iveranee Of the
black slaves. What aie you doing to-
day to liberate the white slavesp Are
you praying Tor their freedom, or help
ing forge bands of gold to shackle them
for eternity? Stand by the teaching Of
your old abolition bible as you did 81