The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-10-23
THE CRIME OF
INHUMANlTY
Tyrants Must Be Driven from
the Throne; Right Shalt
~- Sit IL, Judgment.
<ETho Poison Thorn Tells of the
Crimes of lnhumanity in the
Appeal to Reason.

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OF all the crimes human flesh is guilty
Of the crime of inhumanity crowns then
all with the curse of brutality and the
lowest brutality of british greed.
With the great and hollish crime OF
inhumanity banished from civilization
no one can tell to what lofty heights
the human intellect would reach
/ Without this overshadowing crime al.
ways and ever tearing down and blight
ing every noble impulse of man,
the tendency would zbe upward
through the mists and|togs Of mystery
and superstition-up. and up, until the
great truths of nature were laid bare
before our searching eyes, and man
would be truly the great monarch of
God g creation. ..,
| But the over-shadowing crime is al
ways at work, devouripg some unfortun-
ate brother, or sending forth into the
world some unfortunate woman, whose
very heart and virtue has been de-
voured on the alter of inhumanity, and
the face Of nature everywhere has been
touched with it's cruel blighting hand,
and all the smiles Of earth have turned
to bitter curses, and the once friendly
hands that reached out to greet her
warmly are now pointing the finger of
shame and stabbing the already bleed
ing heart without mercy. ... ~.
And the four corner stones of this
blighting curse are: First, private own
ership of land; second, the law Of force
to compel the landless 70 submit to the
outrageous SYSTEM. third q spirit Of
murder and conquest in the hearts OF
the rich, and fourth and last, a relig
ious faith that tolerates and even ap-
proves this hellish condition Of human
depravity.
And from these four strong and ada
mant corners, inhumanity fourishes in
debauchery, and the gaunt and hollow
eyed slaves have been taught to look
upon the priests of greed and plunder
as the highest position man can reach.
Wherever I go I see these hollow
eyed slaves looking out over the world
from their dismal treadmills of endless
and tortuous labor, believing, poor
souls, that through some inscrutable
whim" of the Almighty they have been
robbed of share in the wealth IF cre-
alton, and must toll on in contentment
and absolute humiliation, or they will
even lose the eternal rest of heaven.
Most of these slaves are lean and
tanned and hollow.eyed, for their work
is so hard that even the flesh of their
bodies is sacrificed on the alter Of in
humanity. They have no time for
study and recreation, and their thought
less faces tell the pltiable story of a
plundered and blighted intellect.
Somebody is to blame for all this.
There is no just reason why some
should be forced to toll and worry and
labor and agonize until the flesh of their
tortured bodies is consumed in the fire
of human greed, while others live in
idle luxury and grow fat on the toll Of
the poor slaves above mentioned.
I curse system so damnable; I spit
in the false faces of the so-called states
men who support it, and 1 despise a re-
ligion that sits down with folded hands
in tho midst Of all this outrage and por-
suades the poor slaves that the great
God of nature has turned against them
and is torturing their bodies for tho fu-
tnre benefit of their souls.
The inhumanity of man would. even
paint the Creator with revengeful
heart, and a heavy, frowning brow, al
ways seeking some means to torture the
helpless creatures whom he called into
existence without even consulting them.
A beautiful religious faith with which
to paint the background for such a
hellish picture Of human depravity-
beautiful story Of a God whose sole oc-
cupation is to study up and devise
means of torture for the poor human
slaves who dare to rebel against the
tyranny and oppression of their plum
dorers.
All, God! To think of the many
blighted minds that are forced to go
cropping their way through the darkness
of prejudice and superstition, minds
that might have been able to solve the
great throhhing nrOhlams of human