Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-01-21
A Remedy
Suggested
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Our toiling millions are slaves:
slaves to a false industrial system that
bids them work under it and for it or
starve: and a slave has no choice but
to obey. To him the all-absorbing
question isis there no emancipation
from everlasting drudgery and work !?
How can he serve who is condemned
to toll. He cares not whether you
call it labor or service; the name is
nothing to him, the conditionis every
thing and the condition is-Slavery.
But what means this messenger
from Mars, and why comes he here
at this hour Of political night to dis
turb the existing order of things? His
name is Destiny and this is the mes
sage that he brings.
REVOLUTIONARY angel of light and
peace with olive branch and horn of
plenty, or a demon of war and chaos
with AK and torch stands on the
treshold of the century just opening
before you. What shall be his aspect
and what his bringing, will be deter
mined in no small degree by those
who aspire to reform leadership
among the people, and those into
whose hands has been given for a
season a little, brief authority to
WELD political and industrial power.
TOY you of this generation is given
the unusual privilege of witnessing
the greatest of all social phenomena,
the birth of New Time. Around you
are working the forces which shall
presently bring forth the glory or the
horror of New Civilization, which it
shall be, depends in large measure
upon the generation which is to give
it initial form and character: that is
to say-whether it shall be the New
Time for which you all pray or
whetherit shall be another disappoint-
ment to the race, will depend upon
those who shall bring it forth. AS
they shall rightly or wrongly inter
pref and give expression to the prin-
ciple that since the foundations of the
world has been working in the affairs
of men: so shall the result of this it's
latest threatened issue upon the sur
face of things be good or i'll, another
disappointment or hope realized.
This principle which has been and is
and will forever be agitating and
working in the affairs of men until the
perfect man and perfect state appear,
has in the ages and epochs of the
world been variously named and in
still more various way been interpret
ed and expressed by the agitators of
the times into proposed or attempted
reforms. At these epoch periods the
principle has been most frequently cal
led liberty, less frequently equality,
sometimes fraternity. 1t is however,
best apprehended and understood I'M
der the simple name of Justice. When
Justice regulates all the relations of
men, agitation and unrest will cease
and not before. Then, and not till
then, will Liberty, Equality and Fra
ternity rule the world, and a govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people exist upon the earth.
But mark you, this result will not OBJ
tain until Justice regulates ALL rela-
tions OF men. During the first ages OF
our prerent civilization, agitatOrs and
reformers interpreted Justice TO mean
religious liberty. Next it was political
liberty, equality before the law, uni
versal suffrage, social fraternity; and
widening, ever widening, gaining much
losing something, the Interpretation
has come steadily closer and closer to
the everyday life of the people, closer
and closer to the truth that Justice,
which the world must first acknoW-
ledge and upon which all the preceding
interpretations rest and without
which they can never be fully realized
means Material Justice, and that ma
terial Justice means Industrial Equali-
ty. Upon Justice i'll material things
in the industrial affairs of men, must
Justice in all things else be made to rest.
But how. how. how may injustice
be dethroned and justice enthroued III
her place; we know injustice rules, no
need to come so far to tellus that We
see it and feel it every day; show us
the way to dethrone her The way
The way, That is the cry on the lips
of the multitude
Men do not want charity, (although
many need il bad enough under the
present conditions they want simple
Justice; that and nothing more. Then
how can it be obtained Tell us that.
There is a WAY and it may be told i'll
lust one NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. But,
YOU reply, we have organizations now
plenty Of them. We have political or
carnations, religious organizations,
labor organizations, reform orgamza.
tons and organized charities and
what are they doing? You have, in
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