The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-10-23

blighted minds-for these darkene
windows in so many human intellects-
: for these sober, thoughtless faces LET
stranded Nalong the sea of life, ant
robbed of thespower to sail out on tn
sea of thought and explore the distan
, islands Of SECRET truths, and stand be
fore God as@free and progressive mel
and women. IN,
This system of inhumanity not onl.
robs the poor of their decent clothing
but takes the flesh from their bones
the thoughts from their brain, hop'
from their soul, and ambition from thei
heart, leaving in their place, rags
wrinkles, wrongs and ruin.
The great God of nature never in
tended that men should toll from twelve
t. twenty hours, midst the mines. mills
and monstrous machinery, and that lit
tie children should never taste the
sweets of childhood, but be forced up L
the tread-mills of labor until hope and
happiness is ground out of their eve,
hungering hearts.
Brother, this system of inhumanity
grows more hellish with every rising OF
the sun. The hours grow longer and
the wages less and less, until now labor
ing people must even strike before they
can get living wages-wages that will
secure the most common and coarsest
food to chain life little longer to the
scrawny bodies of bones and leather
like skin.
And the pimps of pious plunder grow
fat and impudent, and from cushioned
seats in the fashionable church build
ings they listen to polished sermons
whose sentences are rounded at the
corners, and whose promisesI are held
out to mon and women whose inhuman.
ity has made this beautiful world liv-
ing hell OF torture to those who have
been robbed of their rights before God
called them into existence. *.''
Men and brothers, shall this hell of
inhumanity continue much longer?
Shall the blighting of intellects go on?
Shall the flesh of slaves still be sacri-
feed on the accursed altar of pious
greed? Shall the tread-mills of indus
try continue to grind the hearts and
hopes out of the children born down
among the plundered people who are
threatened with eternal damnation if
they dare to raise their arm against
their numbering, plundering oppressors?
And to the fat and fortunate fellows
who go unfeelingly support this system
of plundering, pauperizing priestcraft
of polished hypocrisy, send warning.
The mills of the Gods grind even finer
than your grinding tread d-mills of in
human torture, and the blood and sweat
of the thousands OF tortured bodies
have been crying to high heaven
these many years, and the clogged
wheels of greed must soon stop.
And when they once stop dead they
will never start up again at your COM
mand. The glad cry of Gall the world
for all the people," will 60 echoing
through the standing tread mills Of
torture, and the wheels will never turn
again until the toilers reap the whole
benefit OF their labor.
There will be no more plunder for
you, my fat and favored fellow. The
law of inhumanity will no longer hold
the people by the throat while you rob
them. Your day of spoilation will soon
be over. Ihe socialism first spoken of
by Jesus Christ will cast out the in
human peddlers Of hypocrisy from the
temples dedicated to God, and your
pious bulwark of hollow prayer will no
longer fool the toiling slaves into sub
mitting to your subtle power.
1nhumanity must cease; tyrants must
be driven from the throne; wrong must
no longer grind the sallow faces of the
miserable poor; and right must and
shall sit in judgment, and prejudice and
superstition be swept from the face OF
Gods green earth.
All, God be thanked. 1 SEQ the day
coming! The day Of triumph; when in
humanity will be stamped us mans
greatest crime, and human happiness be
considered Gods greatest pleasure,
Shall I live to see that glad day Of
human triumph over wrong?
Shall I see the earth restored to the
people, and the last accursed chain of
human slavery broken on the anvil of
truth and Justice?
Yes! The truth comes whispering on
the wild winds in words that awaken
great, glad hope far down in my
heart-yes!
cannot die until I see the earth re-
stored to the people.