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VOL. I. a E Mammon is King. GEORGE C. FINDLBY. Oh, say, can you tell by our country's condi tion, Whether Freedom still lives in our borders so wide, Triumphantly reigning, performing her mis sion, While Plenty and Peace with the people abide? Whether Justice still rules in the courts of the nation And Equality dwells amid every station Ah, Corruption doth tarnish the red, white and blue, And Mammon oppresses the brave and the true. Cruel Mammon is king in this land that we love, While Bribery rules as his chosen premier The Dollar o'er Manhood enthroned is above, While Womanhood, thwarted in her holy career, The unwilling victim of Lust and of Power, Breeds dastards and cravens who tremble and cower While Corruption doth tarnish the red, white and blue, And Mammon oppresses the brave and the true. Awake, Oh, Columbia, the true and the brave, And arm thy true soldiers with thunders of right! Come down from the heavens, come up from the grave, Ye sires who for Liberty fought with thy might, Inspire tny children who yet love the race To wipe out forever Humanity's disgrace, For Corruption doth tarnish the red, white and blue, And Mammon oppresses the brave and the true. Impeachment of Our Industrial System. REV. J. J. LANIER. If we need not fear the productive powers of the earth ever failing" us, we need never fear over-population, for never was there a time when the world could not support ten times its population. Forsooth! pessimis tic, political economists try to make us believe that we are suffer ing* from over population, when the state of Texas alone can support half the population of these United States. France, a country less fer tile and with no more resources than the great Empire state ot the West, supports at least forty-mil lion people. Never need the peo ple of the earth fear the ravages of the cold while we have coal mines already discovered sufficient to last for thousands of years. Never need the world fear lack of clothes, as long as there are in the South millions of acres of the choicest cot ton lands uncultivated never need The Labor World it tear the pangs of hunger, so long as wheat is cheaper than corn, and corn iu such abundance on the prairies of the West that it is cheap er fuel than coal. The miners are working on short time, because more coal is being produced than the people need. Still many people must suffer from cold, because they cannot get any work to earn money to pay for coal with. The cotton mills are shutting down, because more clothes are be ing made than the people need, and still a large per centage of the peo ple are half clothed or in rags be cause they are denied the chance to earn money to pay for clothes. And so it is with every trade and business all of them are producing more than they can sell the farm ers more wheat and cotton the miners more coal the mills more clothing and so on to the end of the long list. One would at first think we need more people to sell to. An increase in population would furnish the necessary market for this over-plus. So there are too few people in the world. So they argue when they want to sell. But when a man tries to get employment of any kind, I don't care what it is, he has the utmost difficulty in getting it. He is told that there are too many people in the world. When a manufacturer wishes to sell his goods, there are too few people in the world. When a man wishes to sell his labor, there are too many people in the world. Too many and too few people in the world at the same time! What an absurdity. An over-production of every ar ticle of necessity and still hunger and cold and nakedness—is the world as man has made it! The few reveling in luxury, a larger few in easy circumstances, the mass with the wolf in howling distance of the door, and the submerged tenth who can get work neither by entreaties nor prayers, must beg or steal or starve—this is tne world as man has made it! The agricultur ists' farms being steadily mort gaged, the workingmen's wages be ing steadily cut, while millionaires are steadily increasing,—is the DULUTH AND SUPERIOR, DEC. 5, 1896. No. 20 world as man has made it! In the world as God has made it there is plenty for all in the world as man has made it, there is starvation in the midst of this abounding plenty! The farmers have more eatables of all kinds than they can sell corn used as fuel* fruits and vegetables rotting in every orchard and garden in the land. The mills have more clothing than they can sell and are shutting down the miners have more coal than they can sell and are not working full time. The railroads have empty cars, ships lie idle at the wharves. Advertise for men of any profession or busi ness, and you will have the side walks blockaded with applicants. Plenty to eat, plenty to drink, and plenty to wear, and men standing idle in the markets all the day long! Our Industrial system today is on trial before a jury composed of suffering humanity. If it is to be justified, and if it can be justified, it must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and give drink to the thirsty. If our Industrial System can do this, it will stand to judgment day! But if it cannot at least do this much, the sooner its Judgment Day comes the better for deluded and suffering humanity! The fault is not with nature— there is plenty for all. The fault is not with the people—they want work but can't get it. The fault is with our infamous laws and bar baric Industrial system, that have concentrated the wealth of this country into the hands of a few, and given these few the right to say who shall work and who shall not work when they shall work and when they shall not work how much they shall get and how much they shall not get. We live in a country whose prosperity or starvation depends upon the will of a few money barons! There are in the United States men whom I could count on my ten fingers, who have the power to stop every car from rolling on our railroads, and ever spindle in our factories. The coal barons alone can do it! And still we are foolish enough to think we are living in a free country where the people rule! The effect of the concentration of