The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-30
eLEANINGS and COMMENT
By John Brown.
Los Gatos, Calf.

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the hero of the Merrimac (think of
the modesty Of posing as the hero,
among the countless millions who have
so recently acted out the heroic part,
unsung) held forth last evening in
our Rockefellerized Baptist Church on
-"America and The Destiny of the
World"
Chuch and State (Chamber of Com
merce rejoiced and applauded to learn
that two of Paul's pernicious and mis-
Leading declarations to his "son"
Timothy-"For the love of money
property is the root of all evil".-
"Drink no longer water but take
little wine for thy stomach's sake, and
thine often infirmities" are now re.
futed, exploded, obsolete. "My re.
search Secretary has discovered that
the love of alcohol is the root, source
and cause of all wars, all crimes, all
poverty, all distress The family of
| the drinker becomes absolutely barren
in the fourth generation; on glorious,
righteous, redeemed, dry America alone
now hangs tie destiny of the human
race-therefore, dig down in your
jeans right now and rush to save all
other nations of earth from extinction
by drying them up"
But wait a moment-consider our
recent boastful announcement and ex.
pensive pilgrimage to "make the
world safe for Dsmserasy"-our ac-
! complishment the making Of our own
land the unsafest place on earth for
Democrats-the most profitable place
on earth for profiteers.
Consider Homestead and Ludlow,
Bisbee and West Virginia, Centralia
and Butte, Jefferson City and Atlanta,
Leavenworth and Alcatraz, and our
ten thousand other foul reecking jails
and penitentiaries, where crimes
against the innocent, and "crimes
against criminals" vie with the
horrors of the "Inquisition and the
"Black hole of Calcutta.
Consider how applicable to us as a
nation the blistering words of the
Hebrew prophet hast taken
usury ana increase, and hast greedily
gained of thy neighbors by extortion,
and hast forgotten me saith the Lord
God. Wherefore I have smitten my
hand at thy dishonest gain which
Thou hast made"
Consider how truA today the. words :
of notable Brooklyn preacher of
quarter century ago-"The two lead
ing political parties 4 this country
which alternate in it's control, have
putrefied, until they have lost all
further power to rot; now there they
liel side by side, two great carcasses
Of imquity, each one worse than the
other"
Consider our divorce courts, and
insane asylums-our "pride, fullness
Of bread, abundance Of idleness, and
Indifference to the cause Of the
poor" passing that which incurred
the destructive wrath of Jehovah
against Sodom. Consider how, even
now the very foundations beneath our
feet, are rocking with the earthquakes,
and seething with volcanoes Of the
same righteous indignation. Consider
all this and our ten thousand other
infimay's and shames, and you get
faint conception Of the colossal ef-
frontery that would propose going
utside our own borders on cleaning ex-
petitions, while so many foul masses
reeck and clamor for removal here at
home.
"Thou hypocrite; first cast out the
beam from thine own eye, and then
shalt Thow see clearly to pluck out
tho mote from the brothers eye,"
But to get the real "meat from
the coconut Of Brother Hobson's dis
course-interpret the hints, read bet
ween the lines, strip off the eamou
flage-"Tke Government has the
names Of two million men in this
country who are ready to do what the
"reds" have done in Russia Those
who wish to overthrow our Constitu.
tion should leave the country and
should be helped out" great applause.
-So-you see our "hcro" at heart
belongs with the "shippers and
shooters; apparently, blissfully un.
concious that among the first to feel
the toe Of the boot should bo our
unholy Attorney and Postmaster Gen.
crals-who, like they, have trampled
= In the mire our Constitution, and
k proved themselves the real "Criminal
=. Anarchists" Of hate and violencef
The meeting opened and closed with
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