Hear the booming of our cannon voice glad tidings to the free,
That the millions, stalwart workers, have rechartered Liberty;
And the North and South, united, utter their sublime command
That the Wall-street money barons 'cease to pauperize the land.

III.

But the ballot is our weapon; justice is our only shield;
Chanting psalms of David, Forward, Ironsides! and sweep the field!
This is Naseby! This is Yorktown! Hark! the mighty victors cheer!
'Tis the good old cause triumphant; Roundhead smites the Cavalier.

Hear the warnings of our cannon bearing tidings of the free:
We, the people, patriot workers, now command the land and sea-
While, the North and South united, looking to our God on high,
And relying on the ballot, pray-and "keep our powder dry."

IV.

Tell it not that we, whose fathers crossed the icy Delaware,
Smote the Hessian hosts at Trenton,-will surrender to despair;
But, while Washington's remembered, shall maintain our holy cause,
And preserve our rights untrammeled-freedom and our ancient laws.

Hear the roaring of our cannon tell the story of the free:

We, whose fathers won at Yorktown, nevermore shall bow the knee;

Of the rights the fathers chartered thinking like the fathers thought,

'Neath the old Star Spangled Banner, fighting like the fathers fought.

V.

We shall hold the wealth created by the labor of our hands;

We shall free the tools and money, and make common, too, the lands, That the people may have plenty-win an answer to their prayers, And be rid of tramps and crim'nals, being rid of millionaires.

Hear the music of our cannon bring glad tidings to the free:
We the millions, brawny workers, reordain Equality;

And the North and South united, East and West joined heart and
hand,

Have now sworn to lift the burden off the mortgage-laden land.

VI.

Lo! the day has dawned upon us; lo! the hour has come at last,
When we rise to higher freedom than the freedom of the past;
When the tribes and tongues and kindreds of the nations shall be one,
And the Golden Rule of Jesus the one law beneath the sun.

Hear the thunders of our cannon voicing tidings to the free:
A Republic of All Nations! a World-wide Democraty!

See the North and South united, East and West joined heart and
hand,

Hail Columbia's flag resplendent waving over every land.

DIVISION THE SECOND

INTO FREEDOM

1874 TO 1896

"There will dawn ere long on our politics, on our modes of living, a nobler morning in the sentiment of love. Our age and history of these thousand years has not been the history of kindness, but of selfishness. Our distrust is very expensive. The money spent for courts and prisons is ill-laid out. We make by distrust the thief, the burglar, and incendiary, and by our courts and jails we keep him so. An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season, would bring the felon and outcast to our side in tears and the devotion of his faculties to our service. Let our affection flow out to our fellows; it would operate in a day the greatest of all revolutions. The state must consider the poor man and all voices must speak for him. Every child born must have a just chance (with work) for his bread. Emerson.

TO HON. THOMAS MITCHELL.

PART THE FIRST.

Social Betterment.

PREFATORY.

Division II comprehends studies of the past extending through many years. They are original-the New Testament the inspiring source. If socialistic it is the socialism of the Pentecostal church. The socialism of the German philosopher, Karl Marx, is not that of the Puritan. The one thing lacking to German socialism is that it ignores righteousness-ignores the perfecting of the unit of society-the individual. Americanism is a religion-the religion of Jesus Christ-not of the modern church, which is Pagan, i, e., the religion of commercialism. Americanism is the religion of him who ignored wealth.

The religion of Jesus assures to the individual life's essentialsdistributed automatically to each, "according as he has need," and to all alike the greatest among the disciples being the servant of allfood and raiment, the maximum of personal wealth. And this allotted alike to each and all. "The love of money is the root of all evil.” But for this the American continent and the West Indies would have no other but homes of happiness and no race antagonisms. The African race would inhabit the dark continent only. The AmericanIndian race would not have been exterminated, but would peacefully dwell in their old home-civilized and risen to an exalted place, according to their great mental and manly ability and worth-a superior race.

The rage to "make money" has blasted this continent and is denuding it of all the natural resources of its wealth-coal, timber and minerals of every kind. No one is content with the products of his own toil. It is the order of nature that the family is the independent whole of the social organism. And each family holding fast, as its own to all of its accumulations from its own labor and nothing of other's toil is the perfect order.

The rage to gather beyond one's own needs, holding the superabundance out of the reach of others, is purely Pagan and antiChristian. It has no limitations. Our parish would build a greater church than that of any other parish in the world-the motive vaingloriousness. Now, if moved by a Christian spirit we would build a house of worship only suited to our needs and would extend missionary aid to other parishes not so well off. It is the same with the individual in building a larger dwelling than he has need for. A Christian man would live in a house only suited to his and his family's needs, and extend aid to others not so well to do. No Christian man or woman can be happy to dwell in a better house than his or her neighbor. His and her happiness results only from seeing others as well fixed as themselves and no one in need of the essentials of life. He or she are rendered extremely unhappy if unable to relieve distress. As water finds its level, so do the enlightened of mankind gravitate to the same level in the means of personal well being. Those above the common level will hasten to raise up to the common plane those below. "Bad people!" There are none bad.

Precisely as I am would all others be if they had been brought up under identically the same conditions and surroundings as I. As the so-called "bad man" is, so would I or you, reader, be, had we stepped in the same pathway with him-breathed the same atmos

phere and been taught as he was taught. Then all depends on instruction for the moral religious and social well being of the human race. All depends on education. The press is a great means of education. That the enemies of equality well know-the exploiters of the labor of the many- the so-called "rich"- monopolists and trust magnates. Hence the harm resulting from the press being the property of the syndicates of rich men-bankers, railroad kings, mining kings, merchant kings, etc. The people are hoodwinked and so led to sanction reactionary legislation-the overturning of the democratic order-the inauguration of the European oligarchic and bureau cratic order. Very rapidly is America coming under military rulevery rapidly are we passing away from the landmarks of the fathers. It was at first attempted to establish a standing army of "state regulars." But these were distrusted by the great trusts. Now the regular army is increased to one hundred thousand "boys in khaki"-soon, if the people still sleep, five hundred thousand.

The

The people ought to see the danger that threatens. The old political parties have become the obedient servants of the trusts. attempt of the president of the United States to hold the great trust syndicates obedient to the laws is resented by the party leaders. What must be done? The organizations known as Farmers' Alliances, etc., and the labor organizations must call a convention of the laboring class on farm, in workshop, in mines, on railroads, etc., etc., and move to take control of the states and the nation through the ballot and reorganize our politics, speaking the best voice they know to speak for their country, reorganize the militia-requiring every man to be drilled in the use of arms and to keep a gun above his cabin dooras did the fathers and as they ordained their sons to do. It must not be permitted to the trusts to disarm the many and to arm a select body of bloodhounds of incorporate wealth for the enslavement of labor.

But the one thing of greatest importance is to put a stop to the politicians "seeking office." Let the people select their servants and not give any office to him who seeks the place. What is wanted is an intensified public opinion adverse to office seeking and the office seeker. Let whomever that announces himself a candidate for office be boycotted by all self-respecting, freedom loving and patriotic men. There are very few men and women not qualified to hold any office within the gift of the people.

But the tendency is to get away from the people and to establish autocracy. Now only the state superintendent has a voice in selecting teachers for the public schools. It were better if the offices of both state and county superintendents were abolished. Leave the people free to select the teachers of the schools. All depends now on a given standard of literary qualification fixed by a self-constituted king at the capital, the people left out. But, literary qualification is the smallest part of the qualification for the good teacher. Let the people find teachers for their children among their acquaintances at home-the sons and daughters of their neighbors-and not strangers.

Let the people rule, and let us keep as far as possible from lordship. The colleges are a grand thing-but teachers are not made. They are born. Distrust him or her who comes with a flourish of great titles. The list of letters following a name is no guarantee of fitness to fill any office and less that of teacher of the youth. To say that our schools are better today than fifty years ago when the teacher stood on his merits and won recognition by his work and not by a cheap title conferred by a college-is to say what is not the truth.

But all that the author has written during the half century past is crystallized in the following brief request. "Stand fast for the inalienable rights of man." Let the people rule and equality prevail the orld over. That by an equality that now at this time your abundance