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the just unjust. That they may keep poverty far off from 

 themselves, and those they love, men toil from youth to 

 old age. No time for mental or spiritual culture. Oh no! 

 We must keep busy striving to put ourselves out of reach 

 of poverty's skeleton fingers, and how often rich old cur- 

 mudgeons are haunted to the grave by phantasmic poor 

 houses. 



"This universal shrinking from a poverty against 

 which such desperate war is waged, is not a figment of 

 imagination, or silly illusion of the popular mind. 

 Poverty is an awfully real thing. No curse launched on 

 man by an Omnipotent devil could be more devastating to 

 his comfort and happiness. Poverty is the serpent mother 

 of crime, and hence the most dangerous foe of organized 

 society. A government of the people, by the people and 

 for the people, should recognize the extirpation of poverty 

 to be its supreme duty. 



"'The greatest good to the greatest number' is the 

 primary aphorism of a true republic. Laws that are 

 rightly equal and just nourish hope in the hearts of the 

 laboring masses, and stimulate them to industry and fru- 

 gality. Contrast the condition of the Irish in Ireland and 

 the Irish in America, if you would see the logical fruitage 

 of two antagonistic theories of human government 



" England guards the privileges of a favored few at the 

 expense of the rights of the many, and for hundreds of 

 years has treated Ireland as pirates do a captured ship, 

 while the * American idea' has been to conserve the 

 interests of the producing millions. 



u Please to note the abject destitution of the Irish in 

 Ireland, and mark how millions of them have come into 

 prosperity in this land. 



u Our old ideal of a righteous state, that once shone 

 down on us with the brightness of the sun, has grown dim 

 and shadowy of late. Somehow the corroding essence of 



