The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-09-16

is on Let ns who retain III sympathies with democracy, and believe 10 IT, con
tend feare~ly for the faith that ws delivered to our fathers
As for the rest, W. may be sure that the enemy will hear nothing that II In
the nature Of reason and truth and conscience; bu. nevertheless the enemy shall
bear Sooner OF later the power of consolidated wealth will be humbed AM re-
stmined Sooner or later thee ambitious and selfish fntdgnss against the rights
Of humanity, against the equality and brotherhood of all men and all women be
fore the law, will be bought 10 moderation and humility
DYE money lords of the United States o thou parycnu pig headed ariaoc
racy' O We men Of unbonnded wealth and license ye men who reap where ye
have not ~own, and gather where sc have not strewn; yc me who have arogat
ed 10 Yourselves the night Of establishing a despotism over American society; ye
men who have banded together 10 destroy the great republic and to rebuild onns
ruin, the abandoned owl haunted fabric Of the past ye men who re the oeso OF
human liberty, who do not believe in the democracy Of man, who trampe down
truth and crnsh the hopes and aspirations Of seventy millions Of people under
your gided Iugsernant yc men whom nothing will satisfy but 70 gather mp the
total earnings OF your countrym ens and consume them in the attempted grahhca
un Of your Unsuitable greed and luxury We men whom preachers preach to and
teacher. teach to and lawyers plead for and orators hatter and Journalists glorl
fly W men who have purchased the organized powers of society, and who Use
them a. the dumb pawns of the gambler board, who think You a by the
world and convert it one half moa slave market and the other half into a park;
We men who own all the railways and all the bonds and all the sugar and all the
petroleum and most of the cotton and all the whskey heaven We uD of the
United States We men whose intolcrlle pride overops that Of the feudal lords
and whose unmitigated slfshne~ deyonS the lives of others asst the Roman gut
tons deNonrd humming birds and snaih ye men who fear neither III proclams
uulionaics and hllonauwS about to be, whose spoiation OF the human race gos
on unchecked aud whose arrogance already rings defiance ont of the iron bound
pause nd listen Thu. low murmur which YOU hear in the distance 80 sad and
far is the cry of the poor They who cry are your fellow beings: They are as
They have brothers and sisters and children n you have a few, They haV
hearts as some of you have. They are patient and true as you ire not! They
they are His loved onrs And now by the goodness of heaven, You SHA Lii hear
their cry Wcscrye upon yn modest and generous notice to hear that cry
world You NJ" not the prpnntorS o. nature. You areH simply men, as are the
rest Of your brother. Your brother. will do YOU no harm; hut You shall hear
be casusts and say that it WI always SO and always will be for civilization will
either abolish poverty or be abolished by it! You shall notbe hyprrites and nay
hope as though He were you confederate Hear ye hear ye, the cry OF the
poor, and answer that cry with justice and compassion! Otherwise. the future
fate worse than that which you now inhict on the children of the poor will
damn you for your sin and folly.