The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-05-20

organization now numbers more than
quarter of a million, all of the down.
trodden, sworn to serve the best in
terests of the poor
But If they are all poor people what
can they do to help themselves" OBJ
! jected the voice Of Ben White.
| Rise up and overwhelm the exist
ing condition Of things by the mere
weight Of numbers" responded Blagg
| quickly and tensely. Moreover, the
organization is not so poor us you
might think. 1t has quite snug little
sum in Its own treasury. and, besides
that, know where there Is $780,
| 100000 in cash that we can seize upon
the moment we rise. Look here, Mr..
White, want to explain to you the
| system Of our organizauon"-
BY the sound of the voices they were
slowly walking away. Elsie turned to
Rollins with troubled frown.
II don't Hike this Mr.. Blagg." she de-
clared. "He talks nearly every even
ing with father about some secret So
ciety he wishes him to join, and am
afraid"
Rollins laughed easily. 'These So
cialistic organizations never do any
thing" he told her.
He thought no more of the matter
Just then. but he did think more aud
more frequently Of Elsie White as the
days wore on. He knew that he had
lost caste with Mrs. Rensselaer, the first
| time she saw him with Lillian's maid
but he did not care to hold caste with
Mrs. Rensselaer, The Rollins men
folk had held it as their right to marry
| whom they chose, and he began de-
Mberate courtship Of Elsie White.
He avoided Lillian Breed from fas-
tidious choice, but he spent much time
in his spare hours with Kelvin and
young Rensselaer,
One drowsy night he had dropped to
sleep upon a bench on the porch in the
shadow Of q climbing rosebnSh. He
was awakened by the scrape of chairs
and became conscious OF low and tense
voices quite near him.
You. too. could love Az l love-" said
| the voice Of Blagg. trembling with re-
pressed intensity, could love with
seething brain. with pounding pulses,
with a heart the throbs of which would
hurt and hurt and hurt"
You are almost poetical In your
anatomy of the emotions" drawled the
contemptuous voice of Lillian Breed
II had no idea that the love of money
could affect one in that precise way"
"You don't mean that slur," he pro-
tested angrily. You know thnt II you
had not dollar l would still have for
you this hunger that starves me, this
thirst that pnrchcs me, this flame that
burns me, this agony that makes me
cry out in the night"
"You ought not to encourage your
self in that attitude" she said, with
less contempt. You are making a
breach in the confidence that Is placed
In you here"
Il would make breach in the wall
Of heaven" he rctorted passionntely,
II would break and destroy II utterly.
would grind it to atoms. would scatter
might win You. And you could love.
tell you. us mndly as l do
yes" she admitted slowly, but not
you"
II know" he responded bitterly. but
you are wasting your affections Kel-
vim cares for no one but himself"
'Who told you to speak his name?
Don't make me hate you"
I'D rather that than Indifference
he declared. $50 hate me. for hate at
least is an emotion. AS for Kelvin, l
will not be silent about him, for I
think you're mistaken about even your
self. 1t is not Kelvin to whom you
are attracted. but the force he rep
resents. The power to achieve. that
is what you worship. but in your
drenms Of the power he might acquire
you are blind to other possibilities. /.
too. can give you power Join with
me and future historians will acclaim
us as the great libcrntors of the chain
ed ana manaclcd American public"
"Splcndd!" she exclaimed. laughini.
lightly. II didn't even know they
needed liberation"
"You have much to learn" he return
ed. "Do you know that the army of
the unemployed now numbers nearly II
million: DO you know that there is
an organization among them and their
more fortunate brothers, aggrcgnting
a quarter of a million. which is sworn
to change the existing order Of things
SO that every man shall have an equal
opportunity? Listen moment I
could gain control of this organization
and increase it to lO.ON0.O0O il had
your opportunities to command u bill
lion and half dollars of cash"
"Of what are you talking" Her
tone now was n frightened one.
1.-THE possibilities of new and glori-
GUS order of things new social sys-
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