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Show and, alas! their souls, also, to the highest bidder in order that they may continue their miserable existence ex-istence a little longer. Sad conditions, condi-tions, indeed; may we hope for a speedy change. o. P. words of Shakespear: "The evil which men do lives after them, while the good is often interred with their bones; may it be so with Caesar." The great Abraham Lincoln was a man with keen foresight and he was not given to cry peace where there was none. lie claimed to see things in the future which made him tremble for the safety of his country, and he looked forward with great apprehension to the day when an unequal and unjust distribution dis-tribution of wealth would make one class the masters of the bread, and another class their slaves. Mr. Lincoln realized in his day what we begin to realize now, that no man amongst the vast army of laboring humanity can truly fulfill his God-given mission and successfully success-fully assert his manhood while his necessities make hiin a supplicant at the feet of another for a job which he must have to sustain life. What Lincoln feared, has come upon us. Capitalism rules and the people mourn, and men and women are compelled to sell their bodies AN OPEN LETTER. No. 3. "- MY DEAR SAM: WTe may take it for granted that before the social wrongs which exist ex-ist in our nation can be corrected, the following conditions must be i brought about: a, The people must be cognizant V of existing wrong; b, They must fully comprehend the causes there- ' -J of; c, They must form a strong resolution to right those wrongs; d, The people must learn the true , remedies; e, And they must adopt suitable means for applying them. Socialism comes to point out the evils existing in society, but unlike other theories of political economy it does not stop there, it also makes plain the real cause of those evils, and the only effective and permanent perma-nent cure. It is also laboring incessantly in-cessantly to arouse within the minds of its hearers a determination determina-tion to right the wrongs which have been fostered by the ruling class in this country for the last forty years, and whicli have grown to such gigantic dimensions that they are now threatening to destroy the liberty lib-erty and happiness of the people. Now, my friend, let us remember this, that when we say the people, it means you and I; it means our children our posterity through future generations and this places the responsibility right at our doors. It is claimed that charity begins at home, and if this be so we may well ask: Is there any reason why we should not be kind to ourselves? And on the other hand, is there any reason why we should continue to add to the power of our oppressors? oppres-sors? No just law, whether human or divine, demands that people should tamely submit to wrong without a protest; but when we go so far as to assist by onr ballots those who enslave and despoil us, and give material aid to our enemies ene-mies in their nefarious schemes to bring us deeper into thraldom, and do it all wilfully, we commit a grievous sin against ourselves and unborn millions. The responsibility which rests upon the voters of our land is apparently ap-parently growing graver year by year, and I am convinced that the time is nigh when a common peril will unite the common people, and they will lay aside their party differences dif-ferences and each man say to his neio-hbor: Come, let us reason to-gether, to-gether, that we may solve that one problem and settle aright that one question, "Liberty or bondage which shall it be?" And when that time comes we may expect to see the Republican party "change cars" and its politicians hunt another an-other boarding place. In this connection con-nection we are reminded of the |
