them denouncing the guilty and responsible criminals in
their velvet-cushioned pews? Harder and harder grow the
exactions of capital. Harder and harder grows the lot of the
millions. Louder and louder grow the cries of the sufferers.
Deafer and deafer grow the ears of the millionaires. _Yet_,
if those who cry would but use their power in action,
peaceful action, they could right their wrongs, or at least
the most grievous of them, before the world completes the
solar circuit of this year.

Wm. Goodwin Moody (_Land and Labor in the United States_, p. 338),
reverting to the difficulties which beset the pathway of labor
organizations, which have so far been productive of nothing but
disaster to the laboring classes, says:

Is it not time that new weapons should be adopted, and new
methods introduced? * * * Will not the working men of the
country learn anything from the bitter experiences they have
passed through, and abandon methods that have been so
uniformly followed by the ultimate failure of all their
efforts. But the great evils by which we are surrounded, and
that are destroying the foundations of society, can be
removed by the working-men only. They form the large
majority of its members, and in our country they are
all-powerful. Still it is only by absolutely united action
that the working-men can accomplish any good. By disunion
they may achieve any amount of evil. The enemy they have to
contend against, though few in number, are strong in
position and possession of great capital. Nevertheless,
before the united working-men of the country, seeking really
national objects and noble ends, by methods that are just
and in harmony with the institutions under which we live,
the tyranny of capital will end. The working-men will also
draw to their support a very large part of the best thought
and intelligence of the country, that will be sure to keep
even step with the labor of society in its attack upon the
enemies of humanity and progress.

There is no fact truer than this, that the accumulated wealth of the
land, and the sources of power, are fast becoming concentrated in the
hands of a few men, who use that wealth and power to the debasement
and enthrallment of the wage workers. Already it is almost impossible
to obtain any legislation, in State or Federal legisla