The Ocala banner., 1911-09-08

Wnere ma lnaI. GOd gave man QOmln-
ion over man.
God didn't say to Cain, Thou shalt
have dominion over Abel" or to Abel,
Thou shalt have dominion over
CAIN" nor did he say to Cain, THE
earth and the fullness thereof is be-
queathed to you and your descend
ants as an inheritance forever, to
the exclusion of Abel and his des-
cendants," but the earth was given
to all for the use of all, and if the
command to labor were literally
obeyed, and every man had his share
of the eartn on which to labor, it
would be found that Gods gift were
prodigal enough to go around and no
creature under Gods green footstool
would suffer for want or the ever
present and haunting fear of want
This appalling shadow hides the
beafities of Gods munificence to more
than nine-tenths of the population of
the earth because Gods laws are in
tervened and contravened by mans
laws which are superinduced by his
avarice.
But there will come a time when
~od's laws will be correctly interpret
ed and understood and religiously
obeyed.
Having made man out of the dust
of the ground" it were not unreason-
able nor impious to suppose that in
the doing of which Gods hands were
soiled, because it is the province of
labor to soil and harden the hands, so
the marks of toll should be the marks
of honor, and as a passport into all
circles of society should be more
readily accepted than the soft white
hands incased in Isle and kid that
are strangers to toll, and, therefore,
out of harmony with Gods holy laws
and disobedient to his imperative
commands.
1--WE are the common people, the
hewers of wood and stone,
The dwellers in common places,
mighty of Drawn and bone,
Bearing the common burden that
only the shirkers shun,
And doing the common duty that 9th
ers have left undone.
Dubbed by the few, plebian, rabble or
proletaire,
Ours is the hand that feeds them,
ours is the prize they share.
And ours is the common blessing,
free to the toiiers all,
To win from the lowly valley unto
the SUBMITS tall.
| Common, and only common
This by the hight of birth
Yet the world in its need leans on US;
We are the kings of the earth.
1--WE are the common people, and
ours is the common clay
That God deemed fit for using, when,
in the olden day,
He took the dust of the garden, the
dust that his will obeyed,
Fashioned and formed and shaped it,
and man in his image made;
And, seeing that God selected such
clay for the human test,
And deeming his wisdom SufficeS to
choose but the surely best,
| We, who are common people, and
made of the common clay,
Leave to the proud uncommon to i'm
prove on the Makers way.
! Common, and only common
Tattered, sometimes, and frayed-
We still are content with the pattern
That. God in his wisdom made.
I'VE are the common people, yet out
of our might is wrought,
Ever, by Gods own fiat, masters of
mighty thought,
Men of that grand republic whose
rulers walk alone,
Piercing the future shadows, knowing
what seers have known;
And measured by these. the unco' are
petty, wee and small,
Playing with gilded baubels, chatter
ing, voluble all;
And these, our sons, surpass them as
the hills oertop the glen,
For their great hearts throb to the
WI AZ AOhS SUI, anu LAICS di =
the saviors of men.
Common, and only common,
Hopelessly commonplace,
Yet out of our loins still issue
The saviors of the race"
(From speech delivered before
the Ocala Labor Union September 4,
1904.)
1.-THE RECALL OF JUDGES"
Judge Van c. Swearingen, of the
criminal court of record of Jackson
vile, has recently given a most emf