The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-20

"long time in parlance held" is leading
the vanguard of hope, to the rescue
of the poor who are dying of want
murdered. Every command Of mercy
has been crucifed Ey the disciples OF
plutes. This gang of plutes are called
'the aristocracy of the republic" class
as dangerous to liberty as fallen an
gels are dangerous to religion.
Every admontion of the divine urg-
ing higher humanity has been ne
gated by cruelty, slain by class.
The hypocrites and liars are compile
ment to each other great vicar. to
swallow the earth.
They spit upon the face Of the Christ
man,
Shoot down the defenceless,
And starve the innocent. !
Halt now listen.
There is a mutter deep as a bottom
less ocean, a smothered cry, wide as the
world-forerunner of doom.
II have called, we have refused"
Eye have set at naught all my council; "
would none of my reproofs"
Refused to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked"
Refused to undo the heavy burdens
and let the oppressed go Free"
"The cry of the reapers, unpaid for
their toll, has reached the ear of the
God Of armies" and the fearful hour.
vengeance is mine, 1 will repay" is
upon us.
The voice, as of an arch-angel, is
chanting the prelude, a portent to The
third woe''
81 also will laugh at your calamity.
1 will mock when your fear cometh as
desolation, and your destruction COM
eth as a whirlwind.'
The time has come for calling down
the modern Pharoahs who require
bricks without straw A sight:
Spain in her insolence is seething Cuba
in its own blood. The powers" like
the witches dancing round "Mackbeths'
Caldron'-look on and rejoice.
Pale-faced humanity meantime, dies
by millions, not because famine has
broken the whole staff Of bread, but of
poVerty-"brought on them greed" the
advance agent Of death on the pale
horse and hell following"
Look ho
deposits for his children, oil, COAL met
al mines. There children die before
they see light; the mother follows her
SOUL clinging to her babe, and the man.
the father, he may be called "for-
eigner," by those VINO set the trap for
him, but in that day, when the line is
drawn between right and wrong, and
nations are calling the certificate of
labOr---read
Then we shall see what God says:
Il will be a swift witness against
those who Cypress the hireling in his
wages, the widow and the fatherless,
and that turn the stranger from his
right, and fear not me- saith the Lord
of hosts.'
The piteous wall wrung from the
mothers heart by oft-told deeds OF
wrong; the stricken father, held in
bondage dire, driven by day, cursed by
night, because of tasks undone; sad.
sad. sad.
The horror OF oppression, by the
class, against the mass has, at last, STIR
red the heart of the race.
God made the heart-suffering is
resurrecting it. The father of all heard
the cry of babyhood, when in the reach
Of the jaws of the sea-monster. The
father heard the cry of boyhood, when
in the reach Of the monster, seeking
the Christ to murder him. The father
heard the cry of woGlanhood and sent
her seed to save the race.
Eye have robbed me in robbing my
children"
Even this whole nation"
And it is no answer to legal theft to
say; that you paid a good rate of inter-
est
Neither is the inquiry made sincere
WHEREIN have we robbed thee?'
The echo from the skies tells it-"In
tithes and offerings" Robbng the pro-
Queer of his products, is robbing God.
Be not deceived: God will not be
Knocked; humanity will not be starved
always. When the final analysis comes,
it will be found "robbing God of tithes
and Offering" covers the oil, the coal,
the iron, the earth, flor the earth is the
Lords and the fullness thereof"
So robbing man of his labor" is rob-
bling God of his 'tithe" Chattle slavery
died amid the boom OF the cannon
Industrial slavery must die.
For it is as much worse than chattle
slavery as an inferno IS worse than a
Paradise lost.
Such scenes as the Hazelton shooting
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