The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-12-08

made out OF the ills of others. Your
paradise is made out of the hell of the
poor. come to open before you, the
wealthy, the grand azzizes Of the poor
that sovereign who is the slave, that
convict who is the judge. am bowed
down under what have to say. Where
to begin? I know not l have picked
up in the cruel experience of suffering
my vast, though struggling pleas. Now
what shall I do with them? They over
whelm me and l throw them forth pell
nell before me-
l am diver and bring up from the
depths pearl, the Truth. speak be-
cause 1 know. I have experienced.
have seen. Suffering? No. the word is
weak. o masters in bliss! Poverty
l have grown up in it: Winter-1 have
shivered in it; famine-I have tasted it;
scorn-I have undergone it; the plague
~ have had it; shame-I have drank
of it,
l felt it requisite that I should come
among you. Why? Because of my yes
terday's rags. 1t was in order that my
voice might be raised among the sati-
ated, that God commingled me with the
hungered. o! have pity! O! you know
not this fatal world whereunto you be-
lieve that you belong. So high, you
are outside of it. 1 will tell you what
| it is.
| Abandoned an orphan, alone in bound
gloom you call society. The first thing
saw was law. under the form of glib
bet; the second was wealth-your
wealtil-under the form of woman
dead Of cold and hunger; the third was
luxury in the shape Of hunted man
chained to prison walls; the fourth was
your palaces. beneath the shadow of
which covered the tramp.
The human race has been made by
you slaves and convicts. You have
made Of this earth dungeon Light is
wanting, air is wanting, virtue is want
ing.
| The workers of this world whose
fruits you enjoy, live death. There are
! little girls who begin at eight by pros
titution, and end at twenty by old age
Who among you have been to New.
castle-on-Tyne? There are men in
mines who chew coal. they fill the
stomach and cheat hunger. Look you
in Lancashire. Misery everywhere
Are you aware that the Har1ech fish
ermen eat grass when the fishery fails:
Are you aware that at Buton-Lazers
there are still certain lepers dhiven in.
to the woods, Who are fired at if they
lcHr,n of 1,oi,. tn, 1rro
There are no beds in the novels, anl
holes are dug in the ground for littl.
children to sleep in; so that in place
tof~ beg ginning with the cradle;;' TREY be
lgin With the tomb.
Mercy, have mercy for the poor! Oh
conjure you. have pity! But, no, yo,
will not. I know ye all. Devils bred il
hell, and dogs with hearts of stone. Up
ward to your golden throne for age
has gone the cry of misery, tn
groan of hunger, and the sob of dispai1
and We needed it not. What miser.
hast thou given shall be meted out t
you in turn.
Bear in mind that Il series of king
Iarmed with swords were Interrupted b.
Cromwell with the axe.
Tremble! The incorruptible dissolu
tions draw near: the clipped talon
push out again: the torn out tongue
take to flight becomes tongues of fam
scattered to the winds Of darkness, an
they howl in the Infinite. They VIII
are hungry show their idle teetl
Paradises built over hell totter. Their
is suffering and that which is abov
| leans over, and that which is belo,
gapes open. The shadow asks to be
| come light. The damned discuss til
elect. 1t is the people who are on
coming. 1 tell you it is man who as
cends. 1t is the end that is beginning
1t is the red dawning on Catastrophe
! All! This society is false. One da!
and true society must come. The
there will be no more lords; there wi
be free, living men. There will be n
more wealth, there will be abundanc
for the poor There will be no MOI
] masters, but there will be brother
lThey that toll shall have This is til
future. No more prostra ton, no mol
lIabasement, no more ignorance, I
lImOre wealth, no more beast of burde
no more courtiers-but LIGHT.-Victt
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