THE CONCLUSION. 2$/ 



merchants, fishermen, or mechanics, who believe in the 

 abstract right as the true expedient, and who believe in the 

 principles of liberty, justice, harmony, righteousness, and 

 peace, as the true element in forming the base on which 

 to found social and political systems, are natural allies 

 with our farmers in all reforms having this end in view. 

 Should they not be their natural allies in resisting the 

 forces which are now weaving the network of illiberal, 

 unjust, unchristian, soul-enslaving laws around the peo- 

 ple of America ? 



Our paternal governments have sought for and formed 

 their alliances with wealth and the parts of society, social- 

 istic in their tendencies. They are plutocracies, made 

 powerful by sucking the blood of the state ; in league 

 with that part of the state which seeks relief from its 

 burdens by throwing them on the remainder. 



Are not these really the two great parties about to en- 

 gage in a struggle which is not very far off ? The latter 

 party is already a consolidated, disciplined force, as we 

 have shown ; and it has the wealth of the country and 

 the greater number on its side. The former has yet to 

 bring its forces together. But are not thousands of our 

 own people willing to enter into the contest for reform ? 

 Will some only wait the rallying cry, while others are 

 waiting the command to march ? They are in the minor- 

 ity, but "morality is stronger than a majority." 



We have long since come to the conclusion that we 

 have not been dealing, in this work, with an economic 

 question only, but a far-reaching moral question ; and that 

 when the moral question is settled, the economic question 

 will, necessarily, in a great measure, be of easy adjust- 

 ment. We must keep in view the fact that, nearly nineteen 

 hundred years ago, Christ came into the world to teach 



