Year: 1872

are laoorlag, and for the hap


piness of themselves and fami.


lies, and that they will be much


better off if we ale enabled to


secure all the results of their


own production. We can each


one secure these results OILY


through the community-the


community must distribute


them through its members. It


is In order to circulate these


things more equitably among


the people that we engage in


this movement, for we know


that the laws are such that tie


rich grow richer and the poor


poorer. This movement Is de.
signed to give the poor man, 4


better chance for living. For


instance, Tread the other day


that in Massachusetts the tail


ors and painters live to be for
ty-fve years of age upon an


average, but gentlemen in my
State live to be seventy-one
years of age, according to the


list. According to the last
twenty'six years gentlemen In


my State live to be sixty-nine
years of age on an average. I
claim that these gentlemen


have been living out of the
lives of the tailors and work.
ingmen. Applause. That
the lives of these gentlemen
have been heightened by, the
toll of those whose lives have
been made shorter thereby.


According to the report of
Mr.. Cudworth, of England,
1t has been shown that the
average age of workingmen
there is only twenty-five years.
These poor men live short lives
In order to put their life-blood
into the veins of the wealthy.
Nature is all the time rebel.
ing against this. The poor
men are now reaching up for
a little of these results Of their
products in order to stand


more upon an equality with
the rich. This is the purpose
Of nature. 1t is like the forest


trees that desire to live long
They stretch forth their
branches and draw in the air
and sunshine and rain, that
they may be made strong and
fruitful, and the workingmen
are stretching forth their hands
to secure their rights that they
may be made good, true and
happy citizens Of the republic.
This is our purpose: it is in
our nature, and we can not
resist it. No kings and no
administration can stop it, for
God himself is in tie effort:
Applause I ssy, gentlemen,
this is a grand work, aid there
IS physical basis for all this,
and also a moral basis. We
cannot throw into the Church
the idea that robbing a man of
his life is robbery. For
instance, we lend our energies
in supporting the civil institu-
tions Of society, and while we
critlcise the men who steal
from the banker by going to
his vaults and blowing open
the doors and taking out his
gold or bonds, we say it is the
duty of moral and religious
men to criticise the bankers
themselves applause to GO
to them, and say, "You steal
from the people: you also must
account to the people for your
ioings, and we will change, the
avs so that the system upon
which you steal shall be moral.
y wrong"


Now gentlemen, it must be
plain to you that our cause is
'ne Of humanity, one that in
,erests all mankind--notl the
working man alone, but, for
nen in every walk in life. That
or which we seek is the FIRST
hing developed in our rature
md will most evidently pre-.
rail. Then you will find not
'nly your working, men coming
Up to support you, but all will
ome up IN support of the glo-
lous principles Of peace and
u:tlce, and speed the day of
universal emancipation.