Nome industrial worker., 1908-05-08

uuCll poor mlSeraDl0 man SnuIIleS OH this mortal coil, to be robed in the sheen of immortality. The Church breaches contentment to the pauper, while dazzling wealth rises in arrogant magnificence to mock him in his hungry misery. According to the church the Lazaus must hug the Dives and caress in joy the shackles of his slavey. Labor has chanted a requ- fem of despair that should dim the eyes of tyrants with tears, and yet. the great commanding voice of the church has been mute in the presence of the MONSTER OF PROFIT coining gold from human life.
 The Church has beheld poverty burning is letters of shame upon the brow of virtue, and has seen pitiless hunger snatching the soul from the starved and famishd body of the babe.
 The Church has witnessed the eX- ploiter minting millions from the SW cat anu OIOOu Ol "do 1lNC III novels but no moan or vail breaking from Respondent heart of labor, has aroused the prelates of the Church to unite in the advancement of doc trines that would tear from the roots the Upas tree of profit and piracy, that is, violating and dishonoring man, "the noblest work of God.''
 The Church has taught the people, whose labor has planted upon the bo- som of the cath every comfort and luxury that would make life a pleas ant dream, for all that property is so sacred and hallowed, that humanity must freeze and starve, and that this self sacrifice or voluntary suicide, would win crown and harp from him, whose only Son died for man.
 l have seen woman, the refining in- fluence of the world, sell her honor for bread on the auction block of lust.
 1 have seen some of the fairest daughters of our land becoming cour- tesans, through the starvation wages of department stores and factories, op erated by members of churches, who worship God in high priced pews. 1 have read of an international syndi- cate of debauchery, purchasing and selling virginity for profit.
 1 have seen countless dens of shame standing like fostering sores breeding pollution, and yet, for brothels of prostitution, the spawn of a rotten civilization, for the sales girl and the factory slave, whose scanty income bids for dishonor, for the flesh and blood of innocent childhood sacri- ficed in factory and sweatshop, what remedy prescribed by the Church is potent in hating the carnival of crime Simply because the Church is dealing with effects, instead of striking a blow at the cause, that covers the earth with pestilence. The Church must cease prescribing palliatives to ease the pain of human misery, but must use the scapel in cutting out the cancer that is gnawing and consuming the vitality of physical and moral manhood.
 The Church must raise its voice so loud that it can be heard above the exultant shouts of "frenzied finan- ciers, in denunciation of an indus trial system that spawns masters and slaves, and for civilization, in which will be born men and women, and then, this "renegade Catholic " will go back to the regenerated temple to aid in the battle for economic liberty of humanity, even though you, Sir, stigmatize me as a ''contemptable liar '' and "shirkking squirter of mephitic mendacity.'
 JOHN M. O'NEILL.
 Miners Magazne.