. The people's hour, and other themes . pted with blood is your gold, Youre worse than Barabbas of oldWith your schemes of oppression and plunder; You sweat, starve and kill with your goldAnd your legalized system of plunder. ?Ezekiel 18:13. 84 The Peoples Hour. You ride in your pride with the high,Upborne by the toilers who sigh,And at bottom, competing, they die,Trampled down by the the classes that plunder—You heed not the masses who cry,And you trample on all who are under. *Let no casual reader of the ruling, or, if you please, of thesuccessful, class needlessly misunderstand. The author
. The people's hour, and other themes . pted with blood is your gold, Youre worse than Barabbas of oldWith your schemes of oppression and plunder; You sweat, starve and kill with your goldAnd your legalized system of plunder. ?Ezekiel 18:13. 84 The Peoples Hour. You ride in your pride with the high,Upborne by the toilers who sigh,And at bottom, competing, they die,Trampled down by the the classes that plunder—You heed not the masses who cry,And you trample on all who are under. *Let no casual reader of the ruling, or, if you please, of thesuccessful, class needlessly misunderstand. The author of thisvolume has no bitter feehng against lawyers, politicians, trustmagnates, capitalists, landlords, and bankers. They have theirgeneral justification and individual moral clearance in this, if itsatisfies them—namely, that the each-for-himsclf struggle re-quires them. Rest easy if you can, my lords and know, that there is a bottomless pit beneath, which youhave produced by struggling and climbing and 85 The Peoples Hour. MONOPOLY MASTERY AND SPOLIATION. You have heard of the power of the sweaters Who press out the Hfe of the poor;You have wondered who fastened their fetters So cruelly deep and have learned of their eighteen hours moiling In stifling, disease-breeding rooms,The pittance of pay for such toiling, And you shudder at thought of their homes. But it goes with the struggle of business, The struggle engaged in by all;And if some command gain without labor. The workers must crowd to the wall;If some may have gain without labor. The weak must be jammed to the wall. You have heard of the wealth of the Astors, And all who exact of us rent,You wonder who made them the masters Of those who with labor are gather the goods of the workers And revel where want never comes;The palaces shelter the shirkers, And the workers must live in the slums. You know of the bread speculations,A grab-all of things that men need, 86 The Peo
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