438 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



holding the other hand. The afflicted and grief-stricken 

 children are waiting, with suppressed breath for the awful 

 moment. The ticking of the clock only, disturbs the 

 death-like stillness. The crisis arrives. With a look of 

 disappointment and sympathy that could not be mistaken, 

 the physician tenderly lays down the hand and leaves the 

 room and the dying man. His spirit is being wafted to 

 that other shore "where all is bliss and joy and love." 

 No Shylocks can enter there. No tears; no mortgages; 

 no taxes; no suffering to those who sing praises to the 

 "Lamb of God." 



But who can describe the agonies of that family? 

 Who can compensate for the loss of that father and 

 husband? The funeral is over. The family return to 

 their home. Yes, their home. By every principle of 

 justice and right; by every consideration of Christian 

 charity; by every noble impulse of the human heart, that 

 home belongs to them. But the mortgage was closed and 

 the wife and children turned out of their home; the home 

 that they had beautified, and from the land they had made 

 "blossom as the rose." Contraction had killed the son; 

 had murdered the father, and robbed the wife and children. 

 ' 4 Thou shalt not kill. " " Thou shalt not steal. " " Thou 

 shalt not covet that which is thy neighbor's." Stand up ! 

 Ye who have advocated this infamous system of contrac- 

 tion and be "judged according to the deeds done in the 

 body." The blood of this man and of this boy is upon 

 your souls; and the curses of the wife and children are 

 upon your heads. 



It is this system of contraction and power over the 

 currency that is robbing labor of more than all other things 

 put together. Our representatives in Congress have leg- 

 islated in the interest of capital. The hordes and swarms 

 of lobbyists that have thronged the corridors of our 

 National capitol, and brought reproach upon American 



