United labor bulletin., 1909-10-08
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OUR DANGEROUS CLASSES.
(By John NJ. Dorney0

(By John NJ. Dorney)
The intense activities of modern life,
the wonderful inventions, the greatest
discoveries of the past half century, the
tremendous increase in the production OF
wealth have resulted in a very Babel
OF confusion; sharp, shrewd, bra1ny
men, utterly devoid of either morality
or patriotism, seem to have become IN
sane in the pursuit of wealth, nor is the
insanity of money-hunting confined to
those who openly proclaim that their
rule of life is Eat, drink and be merry,
for tomorrow we die"
For anomalous as it may seem, we see
men who pose as believers in God, in the
moral law, in the life to come, in re-
sponsiblity after death for deeds done
in the flesh acting in the same manner.
We see men who occupy front pews IN
Jewish synagogues, in Roman Catholic
churches, in Protestant churches, VINO
are counted as leading" lights in their
respective temples, whose names head
charity lists, who pose as philantnro-
pists, who build hospitals, asylums, lib
raries for the working people, and
who have the temerity to build and en-
dow churches and synagogues ostensi-
bly to "the honor and glory of God" ana
yet these men are ever in the limelight
as chief figures in all the legalized loot
ing, the downright robbery carried on
to-day by the trusts, syndicates and COM
bines. We see these chiefs of predatory
wealth using their illgotten gains to cor
cta 1npiGIotUTps and
congress. to debauch the courts and the
press, and to corrupt and degrade the
people No burglar, stage robber or
bunco steerer possesses less respect for
law than do these Captains of Finance.
AS a necessary consequence of their con-
tempt for law, of their hypocrisy, these
people have degenerated into whited
sepulchers Externally they are puuctll-
ious as to form, but behind the scenes,
in the circle of the 400" they vary all
the way from moral rottenness to the
most asinipe frivolity If the major
portion of them had their just deserts
they would be doing time" in the peni-
tentiary, yet they have the effrontery TO
attempt to dictate national elections. and
through the columns of their lackey
press, edited by men of brains who have
sold themselves like the son of perdition,
those legalized looters assail every man
who possesses brains to see anu VINO Will
not be bought.
This republic faces the same condi-
tions to-day that caused the downfall of
the Roman Republic; it is controlled by
an ignorant, vulgar. plutocracy In the
precincts of the 400" the password is
money; no matter how stupid or how
morally rotten may be the man or wo-
man. il they have money, no matter how
gotten. they are welcomed and at once
enter upon the privilege of Society"
to maintain a harem, to select "attini-
ties" to plunder by law, and then use
their plunder to secure immunity from
punishment through a purchased press,
Lireling lawyers and pliable judges.
In Philadelphia recently man WAS ar
rested, charged with stealing a loaf OF
bread; he said he and his wife and fam
ily were starving Even the police said
he was a decent, sober man and had
never been ARRESTED The Judge SEN
tenced him to ninety days in Jail, but,
in the state OF feuHSylNdHid uohoi apiS
thives, leading citizens, pillars OF So
ciety, stole 100000 from the state and
the honorable gentlemen are all free and
engaged in damning the leaders of Or
ganized labor.
The predatory rich in this republic
degenerate Americans. are the chief
dangerous class in America. close
second to those maSnet are those Am
orleans who, under iiting conditions,
are content, who do not protest The
Americans. not of the rlutocratic dan
eerous class" who is content who does
not protest. is either stupidity ignorant,
or he is lackey of the plutocracy.
Here we have the dangerous classes
the miserable rich" rott.'1, er-s''vated,
degraded by great wealth, rad tAe mis-
cradle poor" who are ro~t='., ehervated'
degraded by great poverty-both men
ace TO our republic.