The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-07
SLAVERY oRS0CIALISM
4 Slave not Allowed to Eat Grass
Il But Hustled Off to
Prison.
Law and Order Must Prevail
Interesting Notes by One
81 Hoss Philosopher.

Don't be deceived about the fu-
ture. You have not yet tasted the
bitterest drugs in the cup of hard
times. AS Patrick Henry said: "it
is useless to hug the delusion of
hope" when there is no reason to
hope. But hard times have not visi-
ted this and other nations without
great fundamental cause, nor will
good times come floating down
from the skies. The causes of hard
times, the world over, is still oper-
lating and will continue to operate
until discovered and removed. The
future will continue to intensity the
distress. No twisting or squirming
or believing or hoping or wishing
will alter it. Knowledge to apply
remedy is the only method of es-
cape. If you would prefer to sink,
hopeless,to condition of servitude
like the Egyptians rather than
arouse the energy to seek the causes
there is no help. No money laws,
no tariff laws, no free trade laws,
no anti-monopoly laws, will help
you. These laws cannot bring re-
lief,else relief would be apparent
in5some lands where such laws ex-
ist. The cause is deeper. is below
these. .subterfuges used to deceive
you. No change in any of these
laws would have prevented the con-
troll ofthe oil, sugar, or other in
dustries by a few. McKinley's reign
will be harder than any previous
reign, because wealth is every day
becoming more concentrated. It
will be true with the reign of Bryan
whichsis is to follow. No remedy that
does not look to abolishing indi-
vidual ownership of property in
production and distribution will
do any good. The people who own
property control those who do not.
So long as we had public lands we
had no such times, when the machin-
cry is taken into the problem. When
men got disconnected they went
west and got 100 acre farm-they
can't do it now.> And even those
who did have lost it. No, it's Slav-
cry or Socialism,. You can have
either-but you must take one.
VIM. Gardner, Mississippi plan
tation negro, unable to get work in
the free north and starving, went
into a suburb of Cleveland, O., laid
down in field and ate grass and a
piece of tallow he had picked up.
He was great curiosity and soon
drew a large crowd whom he wished
to avoid but they followed and
shouted after him like good 1aw-and
order, well-bred idiots that they
were. The colored man had not
begged, had not, broken any law,
but he was arrested and fined $25 for
vagrancy! His crime had consisted
of being poor, in trying to keep
from starving by eating grass which
no other person wanted! To ap-
pease his hunger they fine him $25
because of his poverty! These
idiots dancing around the starving
who willingly eat grass rather than
break the law, remind me of the
scenes in ancient Rome where
christian men, women and helpless
little children, were thrown into the
arena with fanishiug wild beasts
while the upholders of the same
system (private property gathered
around to see the fun! The people
Of the present day are just as BIZ
goted, just as cruel, just as ignor-
ant as were the Roman spectators
at the wretchedness they hooted
and yelled at. I say the citizens of
Cleveland, O., or any other hell-hole
of commercialism that permits the
crimes against it's poor that this
case shows, mean the citizens who
control it's civic affairs, both pluto
crat and pauper, are worse heath
ems than the Roman murderers.
Once there was a French courtier
who said the working people could
eat grass. He had grass stuffed
into his mouth and his contempti-
BILE corpse was dragged through
the streets of gay Paree. Beware,
0, ye hellions of greed. The poor
will not always starve meekly like
this black slave whom no master
would own. The nation is travelling
at break-neck speed to the cliff of
destruction. When enough men
get hungry, look out.
lDo you think the rich believe in
individual property? Not much.