The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-03-13


either a tyrant or a slave.
For, nineteen hundred years the
voice Of Christianity has been heard,
and for centuries in every civilized
land, Christian temples have lifted
their spires toward the stars, and yet,
crime reigns rampant and man has
not yet been able to obey the scrip
tural mandate: Love thy neighbor as
thyself.' Through all the ages of
time, the pages Of history are wet
with tears and Redeemed with blood,
and Notwithstanding the command
ment from the great book Of books:
Thou shalt not KILL yet every ma
ton under the canopy of heaven is
forging the implements of murder to
maintain the supremacy Of our heart
less SYSTEM Of profit. With all the
wisdom, that has dropped from the
lips Of sages and philosophers and
with all the denunciation that has
Numbered from pulpits, against
wrong and crime, yet now, under the
dome Of every nations sky and be-
meath every flag, we can quote the
poetic language Of Scotland's immor-
tai bard: MANS inhumanity to man.
makes countless thousands mourn
Nature has filled the warehouses of
the earth with a feast for all, and yet
the .gaunt, skeleton fingers Of hun
ger and want are writing the letters
of a lingering death on the wan faces
OF millions of human beings. The
strong, lusty, vigorous man stands
upon the streets, disinherited by the
system that has built palaces for the
few and novels for the many
Woman, who should be the queen
of the home and the idol Of mans ten
derest devotion is seen in the mill, fac
tory, department store and sweatshop
conftscating her health and strength.
to mint profit for the indolent-lhe
class =. OF privilege banquet on
surplus i proceeds Of her bondage in
wage slavery. The child in it's lisp
ing innocence, under this boosted CT
vilization of ours, is forced to crawl
from its cradle and plead to a. boss
for a sentence at the bench of ill
paid toll.
Shall we 60 on through all the
years of the future upholding and
defending g civilization that has made
human flesh the cheapest commodity
in the world? Shall we go on main
tanning and perpetuating system
that builds a prison and palace, that
breeds pauper and a Croesus q
master and a slave, and drapes the
/ world in the darkness of a starless
night? Shall we, go on forging the
chain and shackles that hold us un-
der the yoke Of Industrial thralldom
or shall the people rise in their
economic and political might and
overthrow the system that has put
right upon a cross and wrong upon a
throne? 80.
We, of America, in this so-called
land of the free and home OF tho
brave" look across the wide expanse
Of the two oceans and we see the
millions of Europe and Asia groaning
under the iron sceptre Of imperial
despotism. We feel our hearts go out
In sympathy to the countless millions
in sympathy to the countless millions
off, the old world, whose shoulders
bear the burdens and the sears of the
divine right rule of emperors and
kings. Yet, we of Young Columbia,
standing on the doctrines of De-
claration Of Independence; that was
baptized and made sacked by the
blood of heroes and martyrs in the
cause of human freedom; we who,
boast of political and religious free
dom and representative government;
we who are equipped with that SOW.
erign power known as the ballot, are
but slaves to q despotism that is as
merciless as the barbarism Of car.
that banishes men and women to the
convict~mines Of Siberia. Y. Though We
il.