The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898 Page: 10 of 16
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THE SOUTHERN MEECURY.
THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR.
• Thoughts, retrospective and prospec-
tive, force themselves upon us at the
opening of a new year more forcibly
than at any other time. It is then that
we make up our balance sheet and plan
for the future. If we have profited by
the experiences of the past, our future
will be marked by less failures, less
heartaches and less regrets. H. G.
Can we find a better text for to-day
and for all the future than from the
spirit, words and works of Paul, the
apostle of Christ, and Mazzini, the
godly patriot of Italy—both living and
dying for the cause of liberty where-
unto we are called, the cause of equal-
ity or service to one another in love,
the cause of humanity or the love of
one's neighbor like unto the love of
Moore, in a new year's address, makes one's self?
the following timely reflections:
The new year anniversary is a time
not of wailing, but of welcoming; a
time when we let go the past and
catch on to the future; not a time
when we read past records, but a time
when we try to prophesy of coming
events. It is not a time of year-count-
ing, a time of growing old, but a time
of growing young. It is an evidence
that one is getting old, a sign of physi-
cal and mental decadence, when ono
looks and lingers through the past.
* * * We have no past. We never
servfd. under Washington. We never
signttd a declaration of independence,
but are getting ready to do so. We nev-
er wrote the constitution of the United
States, but we are determined to get
out a revised edition in 1900. We have
"grandfather's hat" under which to
shelter ourselves. Wo came "since the
war," and our "brilliant record" is in
God's future. We begin this year with
enthusiasm; and no better equipment
could we have. As Phillips Brooks has
said: "Let us beware of losing our en-
thusiasm; let us ever glory in some-
thing, and strive to retain our admira-
tion for all that would ennoble, and our
interest in all that would enrich and
beautify our life."
We march forward with heart, re-
membering this much out of John Par-
nell's choice gift of thought:
It matters not what you do-
Make a nation or a shoe;
For he who works an honest thing,
In God's pure sight is ranked a king.
Italy groaned under oppression, and
the vices and crimes it generated.
Young Mazzint heard the cry, but his
love was for book reading and book
making. It was not for revolution. It
meant the renunciation of his well-
bred and well-begun life of literature,
and of many a peaceful ambition, be-
fore he could think that he "could and
therefore ought to struggle for liber-
ty." It is six months in a lonely cell at
Savona, with no companions but the
sea and sky. After that comes the
desperate resolve for the liberation of
Italy both from foreign and domestic
tyranny, and then his banner is floated
out upon the Mediterranean winds
bearing the inspired words: "Liberty,
equality and humanity."
It is imprisonment, poverty and ex-
ile, and the sentence of death, as the
years go on. But above the voices of
his open enemies and his false support-
ers, above the flres of agitation and in-
surrection, above the gnawings for
bread and the starvings of spiritual
loneliness, above the pity for his de-
luded people, the grandeur of the man
is discerned, the patriot's faith in God
is believed and his lofty ideal discov-
ered as his irrepressible spirit cries
out; "I am but a voice crying action;
b\jt the state of Italy criés for it also.
So 4o the best men and people of her
cities. Do you wish to destroy my in-
Horace Greely, in 1845, used these
words:
"I understand by slavery, that condi-
tion in which one human being exists
mainly as a convenience for other hu-
man beings, in which the time, the ex-
ertions, the faculty of a part of the hu-
man family are made to subserve,
not their own development, physical,
intellectual and moral, but the comfort,
advantage or caprices of others. In
short, wherever service is rendered
from one human being to another, on
a footing of one-sided and not mutual
obligation, where the relation between
the servant and the served is one not
of affection and reciprocal good offices,
but of authority, social ascendency and
power over subsistence on the one
hand, and of necessity, servility and
degradation on the other—that, in my
view, is slavery.
1. Wherever certain human beings
devote their time and thoughts mainly
to obeying and serving other human
beings, and this not because they
choose to do so, but because they must
—there, I think is slavery.
2. Whenever human beings exist in
such relations that a part, because of
the positions they occupy and func-
tions they perform, are generally con-
sidered an inferior class to those who
perform other functions, or none—
there, I think, is slavery.
3. Whenever the ownership of soil
is so engrossed by a small part of the
community that the far larger number
are compelled to pay whatever the few
may see fit to exact for the privilege of
occupying and cultivating the earth—
there is something very like slavery.
4. Whenever opportunity to labor is
obtained with difficulty, and is so defi-
cient that the employing class may
virtually prescribe their own terms and
pay the laborer only such share as they
choose of the product—there is a very
strong tendency to slavery.
5. Whenever it is deemed more re-
putable to live without labor than by
labor, so that a "gentleman" would
rather be ashamed of his descent from
a blacksmith than from an idler or
mere pleasure seeker—there is a com-
munity not far from slavery.
6. Whenever one human being deems
it honorable and right to have other
human beings mainly devoted to
his or her convenience or comfort,
and thus live, diverting the labor of
these persons from all productive or
general usefulness to his or her own
special uses, while he or she is render-
ing or has rendered no corresponding
service to the cause of human well be-
ing—there exists the spirit which orig-
inates and still sustains human slav-
ery.
Could we define the wage slavery of
this present day in better terms?
much stomach and little brain, then he
is at the lowest estate of the human,
and but a few strides removed from the
lower animals. The higher degree of
development an individual reaches as
a God-made product, the more wants
he has. A mere animal has few desires,
far more than he has at ready com-
mand. The greatest men and women
want to be what God created them to
be—free and equal.
We are not here to-day to consider
conditions for individuals. We are not
studying the best interests of the soli-
tary tramp who comes to the kitchen
door; but we are studying our duty
toward families of tramps; toward
whole armies of the unemployed;
toward the two millions in enforced
idleness who desperately tend to the
saloon and the gambling dive, the only
places that bid them welcome, though
it be but to drink and crime; toward
the vast number of the employed who
are stitching or digging out body and
soul at death wages; toward the thirty
thousand, or a few more, who have se-
cured more than one-half of the wealth
of this country, and whose days of
greatest prosperity have been the times
of general panic, depression and suf-
fering among the masses. We can
never be equal, independent, or dwell
together in love until we have a finan-
cial system established and operated by
the government, just and provident to
all people for all needs and contingen-
cies. The money power has this na-
tion by the throat. We must loosen its
grasp quickly, or be strangled to death.
Its malignant influence is felt by op-
pressive usury, a subsidized press and
a subsidized president, a cabinet and a
senate of millionaires, combines, cor-
porations, rings, grants, pools, watered
stocks, brewers' congresses, whisky
truts, national banks, demonetized sil-
ver, and the issuance of bonds to the
bankers, instead of full legal tender
money to the people. From tariff
doy^n to the ordinary lenders' exac-
tions it is one relentless system of usu-
ry, which, to the masses, means a
cruel sacrifice of liberty, home and life.
The Scriptures preach against usu-
ry, yet its practice in Bible times was
not so oppressive as the practice to-
day. Then it simply meant any com-
pensation for the use of money loaned;
it meant interest. It was not consid-
ered right to make money a merchant-
able product. It was not lawful to traf-
fic in money. It was a crime for the
Jews to take any interest or usury
from each other. They could demand
it from strangers, for all outside their
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