CHAPTER XIV. 



THE REMEDY. 



THE intelligent and observant reader has, doubtless, 

 to some extent, already anticipated a remedy for many of 

 the evils discussed in previous chapters. The practical, 

 intelligent and unprejudiced man or woman would sug- 

 gest a remedy in a very few words. It would be to 

 "abolish the evils and false systems which prevail, and 

 establish a government and enact laws founded upon 

 humanitarian principles." But it is much easier to sug- 

 gest a remedy than it is to apply it, or reconcile it with 

 existing conditions and suit it to the exigencies of the 

 times. While the great masses of the people agree that 

 the only remedy for their wrongs is to abolish unwise and 

 oppressive laws and false systems, and to restrain the 

 aggressive and unjust encroachments of the strong against 

 the weak, they, unfortunately, disagree as to the plan or 

 manner of accomplishing this. This, in a great manner, 

 is due to selfishness, jealousy, envy and ignorance. What 

 the people need is education. The great necessity of the 

 times is agitation. In this, and this alone, is the only 

 hope of a peaceable solution of the labor question. 



Popular government is only possible when founded on 

 intelligence, honesty and patriotism. The people ought to 

 be thoroughly enlightened on all questions relating to their 

 interests. We desire to state in the outset that we are not 

 of that class of reformers who believe that the foundation 

 of a new party, the adoption of a new system of finance, 



