698 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



class laws. With regard to the religious press we have but 

 little to say. It is strange, indeed, that it does not reso- 

 lutely combat the evils which must be apparent to all. If 

 the same spirit which led our Savior to overturn the tables 

 of the money- changers in the temple and drive them out, 

 prevails to any great extent among the members of the 

 religious press, they certainly cannot much longer refrain 

 from raising their voices against the dangerous tendencies 

 of the times. 



As one of the great objects of labor organizations is 

 to educate the members, they cannot afford to undervalue 

 the importance of using'every endeavor to select and sus- 

 tain such papers as are devoted to their interests. The 

 great and good Thomas Jefferson said that u Education 

 was the only sure foundation that can be devised for the 

 preservation of freedom and happiness," and that u the 

 press is the best instrument in enlightening the mind of 

 man and improving him as a rational, moral and social 

 being." 



Says the Labor Sunbeam: 



* ( The labor press is the right arm and strong bulwark 

 of your defense. It stands between you and the evil pow- 

 ers. There is nothing like it in the whole world of thought 

 and action. It speaks from the watch towers of free 

 thought and common right. When danger is near it 

 sounds the alarm. Courts and Legislatures listen, the peo- 

 ple listen, and when anathema is needed it thunders in the 

 tyrant's ears, and cries out 'Let my people go free.' 



"Nor is there any hope of reform unless the masses 

 turn away from false teachers and a subsidized press. 

 Labor papers are struggling for existence, while the subsi- 

 dized tools of monopoly wallow in wealth that is created 

 by the workers. Let the reform come by first supporting 



