People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-07-24
'PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA. GA. JUEl
To-day and To m6ff0k.

was very tTeu, IoF tHe Wofk
had been doing was toilsome; and
now that the room grew warm and
the long task was finished, fell
asleep.
No one in the house had been
awake but me, while had for many
hours gone over the dreary record of
the patient poor, the suffering poor
Gods unprovided poor. The hours
had stolen by like slippered monks
and now 1t was far into the night
when hesviness fell upon my eyes
and I was asleep.
Manys whrling fiction passed
thro' my heated head before there
was order in my Dream, but after
awhile all was cruelty, shock
ingly clear.
l dreampt that the world lay be-
fore me like map, and that / could
see it all at once, like map. That
every grade and class and condition
of human life was before me at once
with no mist before my eyes and
no distance to distort the outline.
What I saw was this: A msgni-
ticent world of land and sea; ofRiver
and Lake and Forest and fertile field,
mountains scanned with mineral; val
leys rich with grain.
This world was called by its Maker;
"a Home for the human family"
This human family has grown large.
Its footprints were thick upon every
stretch of land, and the vessels they
had built darkened the waters of all
the seas.
But the earth was no longer a home,
and men were no longer brothers.
They hated each other. They all
worshippe1 God, but none of them
regarded His Law.
Churches fourished-so did crime
Schools fourished-so did ignorance.
Charities fourished-and paupers died
in the Streets. l wondered what it
all meant. There was land enough
for al. They said God made it for
all. But a few had taken possession
of it and the many had no homes.
There was food enough for all.
But a few strong men seized it all,
and one-third of the people had not
enough to eat.
tried to see what kept the human
family alive. | found it was Labor.
There we're many kinds of Labor.
Some labored to produce food for th 9
world. Some labored to produce
clothing.
Some labored to make houses be.
oats9 osSsa md hollow traes had be.
come unsatisfactory.
Some labored to teach the people
the Law of God.
Others still labored Cor pretended
to labor to make just Laws, by which
Gods will should be done in the
affairs of men.
In my dream I saw clearly most
singular thlng-those whose work
was most important to the world
were paid less for their Labor than
any body else. Those who merely
amused the world got higher wages
than those who fed and clothed it.
Those who played and danced got
higher pay than the man who built
the house they play ed and danced
in.
The Laborers who produced the
food and the clothing were so badly
paid that altho' they fed and clothed
their masters, they (the laborers) hal
not enough to eat or to wear.
In my dream it seemed that the
cause of this cruel thing became clear,
Those who had made the Laws had
so cunningly made them that the
strong man was master of the weak.
The strong man became the Task
Master of the weak. and in return for
the weak mans labor gave him what.
soever pay he chose. This made the
strong man stronger and the weak
man weaker.
l thought l heard great heart
breaking cry go up from those poor
laborers but their Task Masters heard
it not-so deaf aret hey who will not
hear.
l thought thst now and theaathese
laboring men grew furious with their
oppressors and rose up against them