The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-16

land We have had for more THAI half a
century queen who does not forget
that during that time complete revo-
luton has taken place in many pre-
viously existing beliefs and systems, q
queen who knows that England will
never tolerate another George Nv, who
recognizes that what was patiently
borne GO, 40 and 30 years ago will not
be endured for moment today, and
has wisely avoided everything which
can put royalty OH its trial or the tenn
per of the people to the test. Hence,
though Englishmen know that day of
reckoning between royalty and the peo-
pie is nigh, they have tacitly consented
to put off that day SO long as she lives
and to call upon some other and less
fortunate sovereign to settle the account.
But the account, too long overdue, will
soon have to be settled. As well might
one man hoIe to stand against an III
coming sea. as well might the courtiers
of old King Canute think by their child
ing to stay the rude waves from wetting
the feet of their royal master, as the
rich few think that they can Withstand
the million of the poor when the poor
shall arise in their might and their
right to claim as their own the riches
which their labors have accumulated.
In whose hands are those riches now?
''For answer let them look to the
words which are written in the very
heart of their seething. starving Lon
don, over the portico of the Royal Ex-
change, The earth is the Lord and the
fullness thereof. Yes, the lords'--this
dukes, that earl not Gods (if
God there be) or the peoples.
"But it is to restore the earth and
the fullness thereof to the people that the
World Federation of Freedom is fight
ing. Its cause is the cause of the poor,
and it is sacred. Long years of toiling
for the bare necessities of life have so
broken the spirit of the poor that they
have become almost like beasts of bur.
den that vince before a whip in the
hands of a child and bow themselves to
the yoke at the bidding of master
whose puny life they could crush out ut
blow. 1t is time that the poor should
be made to see the terrible power which,
If only by virtue of their swarming mil
lions, lies at their command.
ut is for the people of Great Britain
to make choice whether they will throw
in their lot with the winning side while
yet there is time to make terms or
whether they will sacrifice their lives
and the lives of their wives and children
to support system by the destruction
OF which they will be the first to profit
And in making such choice it must be
remembered that they have no longer
against them for the purpose of freeing
Ireland and of emancipating Russia a
handful OF patriots, strugg ling hopeless
ly against overwhelming odds, but the
whole of the secret societies of the
world. They have against them the
most gigantic and farreaching organiza-
tion which has been formed within the
history OF man, an organization the
wealth and power of which are prac-
tically unlimited, which counts among
its members statesmen in every court in
Europe, statesmen who, although they
hold the highest offices of trust in their
country's councils. are secretly work
ing in connection with the federation,
an organization which has spies and
eyes in every place and will spare
neither man, woman nor child in the
terrible vengeance which will be visited
upon its enemies
1.-THE people of England, and espe-
cially of London, will know before the
morrow how farreaching is the arm Of
the federation and how pitiless its venge-
ance. Let them be warned by what
will occur this day on the underground
railway, and let them beware lest by
either actively or passively,
the work Of the federation, they incur
that vengeance. BY order.
CAPTAIN SHANNON. a"