THE REMEDY. 769 



It is of this class of men that the Savior said: 



"Woe unto you, also, ye lawyers! for ye laid men with 

 burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not 

 the burdens with one of your fingers." Luke xi, 46. 



We are nearing a crisis which should excite the worst 

 fears of every patriotic citizen. The spirit of rebellion 

 against the many evils is growing stronger. It is a matter 

 of the deepest moment to the people whether the powers 

 that be will continue to increase the burdens of society 

 until public indignation is wrought to such a pitch that a 

 quiet and peaceable solution of the labor problem will be 

 out of the question. The consequences of revolution are 

 terrible to contemplate. Yet, that the symptoms of the 

 disease which is the forerunner of revolution is everywhere 

 apparent, it is folly to deny. Thousands of men who have 

 already lost all hope of a peaceable solution of the great 

 question of human rights are calmly waiting the issue. 

 Nothing short of the independent manhood of the country 

 can save the Republic. When we think of the ominous 

 import of the earnest protests of the people, and the grow- 

 ing discontent everywhere prevailing, our mind turns back 

 to the period immediately preceding the American revolu- 

 tion. A scene is being enacted: 



"It is the old hall in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776. 

 There is a silence in this hall ; every voice is hushed ; every 

 face is stamped with a deep and awful responsibility. 



' ' Why turns every glance to that door ? Why is it so 

 terribly still? 



"The Committee of Three, who have been out all 

 night planning a parchment, are about to appear. 



"That parchment, with the signatures of these men, 

 written with the pen lying on yonder table, may either 

 make the world free or stretch these necks upon the gibbet 

 yonder in Potter's field, or nail these heads to the door- 

 posts of these halls. 



