Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-10

corner and one family for the center of
the room-and zone of those families
was taking In boarders." II means
that no criminals as q class shall be
allowed TO collect in one region. Those
haunts If necessary shall be rezed N
the ground and turned into parks. as
New York city is now constructing
small parks at street corners which
were once famous, for their infamies.
Tho Uncrowned King.
But some one again Interrupts me,
I'm these charges against the city ten.
ements, are you not slandering our ln.
boring classes? You surely do not com
pare the American army of labor with
those wild. desperate crowds of fren
lied men who, emerging from the eel.
lars and foul haunts Of Paris, started
on their famous Journey to Versailles,
which ended in the death Of Louis
XVI. and Marie Antoinette, the
naughty daughter of the Austrian war
queen, Maria Theresa? Do you charge
the laboring classes with being the
physical and spiritual menace of the
world" Oh, no.. my brother. am in
no way slanderins the laboring classes.
l believe that some Of the most cleanly
ana moral and refined homes Of the
world are found among the laborers as
well as among the capitalists But this
Is what do assert: The laboring man
Is the uncrowned king Of the American
ballot box. What he votes Is law. II
rests upon his shoulders, to great ex.
tent, how our cities and counties are
to be ruled. 1t rests with him whether
the sewers sha II be clean, whether the
tenements shall be made sanitary and
not overcrowded. whether the million
immigrants who landed In the country
last yeah some of whom come as the
most degraded and ignorant of Euro.
pean inhabitants, shall be made to OBJ.
serve decencies. and whether sin itself
shall skulk and hide in the darkness
How the laboring man spends his even
1ngs is decided to a great extent by the
question whether the laboring man
shall license sin and let leering eyed
temptation stalk through our cities and
towns, like the Indian juggernaut
which crushed it's victims at every turn
Of the fatal wheels
Rely on Divine Strength.
But, ye laboring men. how are we to
win in these three great movements
which we have been developing? How
are we to get the Holy Spirit inspired
institutional church. and the Christian
Sabbath as a day for rest and worship,
and gospel ballot box TO care for our
depraved? Shall we ultimately OF
ever triumph in these three great
movements for the publication Of tho
laborer's evenings? Not in our own
strength, but In the strength Of Jesus
Christ, we shall, and we can do every.
thing If we will only trust him and
work for him.
One day, so goes the story, an old
Scotch preacher arose and first gave
out as his text the following words
from Philippians iv. 10: II can do ali
things" Then he stopped A look Of
surprise went around the congregation,
for this minister was a humble man.
But after a pause the preacher said;
"Ah, did not read the text Alright II
any man says to me I can do all
things I know he is a liar But if he
reads my whole text and says 4 can do
all things through Christ, which
strengthened me, then l say he tells
the truth. Christ Is omnipotent and
Christ will always give us his promised
aid" So, laboring men, I beg and
plead with you to throw yourself upon
the divine strength. l plead with you,
by the power Of Jesus Christ to 60
with me into the battle of trying to
save the lower as well as the socially
higher classes. I plead with you to
help solve the question how the Ia.
boring man shall spend his evenings
by appealing for help to n Saviour
who was once laboring man. He was
Jesus, the carpenter. He was Jesus
the worker for daily bread. He was
Jesus. whose companions were for the
most part men Of knotted muscles and
swarthy limbs and furrowed cheeks
and coarse hands. He Is Jesus, who
is ready to be your colaborer for the
emancipation of n sinful world-Jesus
who perhaps Is your colaborer now.
Copyright 1903 by Louis Klopschl