People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — MUST HAVE A BETTER SYSTEM. [ARTICLE]

MUST HAVE A BETTER SYSTEM.

Every Starving Mortal in Dangerous to All Mankind. My friends, you may turn the cold shoulder to the world’s unfortunates and outcasts; you may sneer at their misory and rejoice at more stringent laws regulating vagabondage; but rest assured that as certain as day follows night the society that finds no better remedy for human misery than the rickpile, the workhouse and jail is destined to rot and fall to pieces. Your own personal security, the comfort and happiness of your loved ones, depends upon the establishment of a system that, guarantees justice to all mankind. Ev-J ery starving mortal is one of the ‘darbl miners” that Victor Hugo describes as] picking away with blind hate beneath] the social superstructure, preparing] the gulf into which civilization shall] plunge to its ruin. Mercy and Justicel are the guardian angels of a true social! system. Where they are not, Destruc-I tion stalks along the streets and high-l waysiand shadows the halls and homesl of the people. “Blessed are the merei-| ful,” said the Great Master, and hel further said: “As ye did it not to the! least of these my brethren ye did it non unto me.” —New Charter (Santa Cruzl Calif.). I