all to help bring in that day? The people are ready. Why? They are ready because the days of its gestation have gone by and the New Industrial Era will inevitably be born. It will come because there is no alternative-it only can be. See the old order lying cold in its coffin! It is dead and about to be buried. No more strikes, no more hunger, no more bloodshed. That is the new order. Welcome it. Spread palm leaves before it, as it advances. It is coming. The New Order set up, what do we see? Common ownership of the tools of production, common ownership of the lands, and common ownership of the medium of exchange-these we see. And to bring about this great "evolution" will require no change of the Federal Constitution or of that of any state. Give to the many the benefits of "protection" that have hitherto been given only to the few; define by law the "rights of labor" and so secure to the workers the control of the tools of production; put in operation the law of "eminent domain" in order to secure the common right to the lands; and institute depots of exchange by federal and state aids, so that all articles of utility may at once be exchanged for like articles through the medium of "exchange certificates"-the money of the future. The rights of labor should be defined by competent courts, and strikes so adjudicated. A legal tribunal settling strikes, they will, as a rule, settle them justly. Profit-sharing will come in to be followed by co-operative production and co-operative distribution of labor products. Public control means public ownership-for, to control is the same as to own. The laws have always said what toll the grist mills may take. They will say the same of railroads and factories; and what rent may be exacted for farms, flats, business blocks, etc. When competition fails, public control and, finally, public ownership will, yea, must follow inevitably. It is the only outcome of trusts. The so-called "proprietors" of public utilities will receive a fair compensation for operating them for the public. Then the inauguration of the New Industrial Era is a very simple thing-public control, which is near at hand. What shall be the terms of employment of labor? All the product. There will be no capitalistic class the commonwealth only owning the mines, manufactories, railroads, etc., etc.-at least, fixing toll, which is all that ownership implies all that a bona fide owner can do. A moderate "rent" to the government for the privilege of operating the mills, factories, railroads, farms, etc., etc. No more investment of money for private gain. All speculation shall cease; the ownership of lands be limited to what is just; there will be homes as of old, and many children will play again about the doors of each home. To each will be given his just share of the "benefits of invention" and of the common manna. What is this God-given manna? Sunlight at least. There will be marrying and giving in marriage and no more infanticide. Come one and all to these shores, O ye down-trodden of European tyrants--as our fathers came for the same cause. There is room here for a population of a billion, and plenty for them, too, if we put down greed-if we institute the Co-operative Commonwealth and so bring in the Kingdom of God. Welcome the New Industrial Erawelcome homes and happiness for all-welcome plenty and love and joy and peace-but above all, welcome the teetotalism that must precede. All reform is religious, and without goodness, morality. righteousness, devotion, purity, sobriety (no drunkards), all our hopes must fail and we shall be slaves of the capitalists forever. All wrong is in idea. To reform the world is but to enlighten the minds of all in respect (it may be) of but one thought. It was so with the Protestant reformation-one thought, "salvation by faith." "The just shall live by faith." There is a wrong idea of life universally held which, if removed and replaced with the true, would make the world one of rectitude. The wrong notion is "that to have a good time" is the end of living-the one sole purpose of existence. No; it is not for this we have life. The true purpose of life is to walk hand in hand with nature and with nature's God. The ancients arrived at a just conclusion: "Be fruitful." This applies to all life, both animal and plant-reproduction. We are placed here to bring up a family and not just to "have a good time." "Therefore shall a man cleave unto his wife and they twain shall be one flesh"-brought together by an overmastering passion that, as a rule, cannot be ignored. This, then, is the end for which we live, and not for pleasure any more than for that the soldier is drafted and sent to the front. Little pleasure accrues to the men under fire, unless we say "it is sweet to die for one's native country"-sweet to do our duty. Let the great truth take full possession of our minds and stay there to the end of our lives and influence, yea, determine our every thought and action, that we have been drafted by God Almighty into His army, sent to the front, and are under fire all the time. The only pleasure there is, or can be, results from duty to God well done, which means duty to God's creatures. Its performance is what all live for, and for that alone. Every true man and every true woman knows what that duty is. God pity the man that has no wife and the woman that has no husband and the couple, long married, not blessed with a large family of children. What of the mother? Her place is by her hearthstone. Here is her happiness. Hearing no voice but of nature and nature's God, she can be only happy. Do you say "she is a drudge with an endless routine of work to do from day to day, like a horse in a mill? "Nor going on nor standing still!" So of the mother-bird. Does she think it drudgery feeding the open mouths? It is joy! So it is with the true human mother. And it is as easy to bring up a large family as a small one. As much will be spent on two or three children as need be spent on ten. The time is not distant when reaction will set in against the present ways of society-people as took place in England when the Puritans gained the ascendancy more than two and a half centuries ago. A new Puritanism will arise soon and men and woman again come to realize the serious purpose for which life is bestowed upon human beings. Then will they marry as their parents did and bring up children. It will then be again seen that the highest happiness belongs to the home-circle, and the larger the circle the greater the happiness. No matter if the children when grown do remove to the most distant climes. Steam and electricity have brought the world into a small compass. Action and reaction follow each other. Let the natural flow back upon and submerge the artificial. Let not luxury and wealth destroy home-life. Let each young person say: "Nature is my mother; I will obey her." The married woman (say is God still just!) What causes this decay? this cankering rust? Go back to Nature. Banish modern Art. Destroy at once the deadly Upas tree! How sad the home where children do not play; YE 93RD LESSON. For Better or for Worse. What is the purpose of human existence, according to nature? · It is the same as of animal existence in general. The poet may say that "it is to enjoy life." But that is not true. The question of joy and sorrow is not considered. It is foreign to the subject. The end is to fill an office. With each person, up to adult age, subsistence depends on parental love. Nature, then, pushes the adult into matrimony. After this the office of the husband is to provide for wife and children. This is all of life to him according to nature. The office of the wife is to bear children "in sorrow." Life is a great responsibility, but a glorious one. The soldier's life is typical of all life, and of married life in particular. To desert should, in both instances, be punished capitally, if capital punishment is right in any case. Personally, I believe in neither war nor capital punishment. I do not believe in any punishment whatever. I believe only in education. "No man that knows the right will do the wrong,' was the fundamental doctrine of Plato. How many thousands have died for their beliefs, from Jesus to John Brown? Seneca was right. There is no such account for all desert your post "Of a truth," said Seneca, "anger is madness." What is done in excessive passion is done insanely. thing as criminality. Ignorance and madness crime all wrong-doing. It is a capital wrong to in the army; and I affirm that it is in fact a greater wrong to desert wife and children, or husband and children, than to abandon the picket post at the front and go over to the enemy. It must be put a stop to in some way, and soon. Separation of parents must cease. Families must not be broken up voluntarily. There should be no grass-widows or grass-widowers guilty of desertion of home and little ones left outside of insane hospitals. They ought not be let run at large more than Satan unchained. This is the right view. The natural law is "go forward!" There is no release but death. Irksomeness is not considered. "Forward!" is the command of nature and of nature's God. It is not for pleasure the soldier has enlisted; nor do men and women marry for pleasure. Yes, "in sorrow and obednence" is the command to the woman especially. So nature has ordained. It is the law. When the soldier signed his name to the army roll, he said: "I never expect to reach home alive." That was his feeling. He did not expect, in the service of his country, to sleep on downy pillows and feather beds. "Let him that is ready to suffer deprivation and death to free Italy step forward!" commanded Garabaldi. Not a man hesitates. All promptly move forward as one. "Let him and her who are ready to marry for better or for worse till death do you part join hands. I pronounce you husband and wife. What God has joined together let not man put asunder," says the priest or magistrate. It is for life they have enlisted. Is that THE "SERVANT" GIRL. 137 right? or should it rather be "during convenience or whim?" That depends upon which is best-not for the married couple-but for the common good-for society-and above all for the children of the married. It is unfortunate if the couple do not love. It is unfortunate if the soldier become homesick. Neither may desert. What office has subsistence compelled that is not for life, as a rule? I learn a trade. That is entered upon for life. I knew a man worth millions that a pessimist would pronounce a slave. He was in his office figuring like a poor clerk every working day for half a century or more and, too, after he was an octogenarian. Confined to his cell like a convict, seemingly; but he enjoyed it. The farmer plows his field under a burning sun. He enjoys it. The blacksmith, smutty at the forge, bruised, wrenched by the unruly horses and oxen that he shoes, burned by sparks at the anvil, greasy at the vice-a chosen life-employment. He enjoys it. The same with all workers, business men, lawyers, teachers, physicians, editors, etc. "Hell on earth!" says the pessimist; not so, say they. The trouble with married people is they are expecting, as soldiers, enlisted for life, to sleep on downy pillows and feather beds, when not so stipulated in the enlistment contract. Like Cortes, they have burned their ships. Let this be remembered. O, heaven-born marriage! Inviolable vow. Staunch be the laws that give thee binding force; And honeymoon an endless, changeless now! Most heinous crime against Almighty God- For marriage is the sacred family mace. The Church of Rome deserves thanks of mankind The true palladium of the human race. The public voice, be it awake to stay Thy wicked hand, Divorce, without delay! YE 94TH LESSON. The "Servant" Girl. When was penned the New Testament command, "Servants obey your masters," the Greek word "servant" translated meant "chattel slave." Slavery was then universal. And, even at the period of the translation of the Bible into English, when James I. was king, slavery was still almost universal. The word "servant" means "slave" and "servant girl" means "slave girl." Now the word has been given up and is no more in use in respect to men. Workingmen are not "servants." But woman holds fast to tradition and while her heart is tender, her head is vain. She must be looked up to-must triumph somewhere; so she holds her head above the woman in the kitchen and still treats her as a "servant" (slave) and not as an equal. "Servant girl" is a detestable expression and should not be longer used. Slavery is no longer legal and the word that means "slave" ought not longer attach to any. What name, then, should a young woman have that has become a member of our household and is so near to all? No other than her Christian name. What is her place? It is the same to the housewife as sister or daughter. She is a member of the family where "caste" is out of place. What ought she be expected to do? The same as sister or daughter, no more or no less. What treatment ought she receive? The same as they. Ought the housewife order her to do this or that? Yes, just as she would her sister or daughter. No one ought to order or expect another to do for him what he can do for himself. "Why, then," says our lady of the house, “I have no use for a servant girl, I can do all my own work." Very well, then, do it. If you can, it is your business, and ought to be your pleasure. You will ever be a happy woman if you never permit any one to do for you what you can do for yourself. You will not feel like "putting on airs," but will be grateful for help when in straits where you cannot help yourself. But you say, "I pay the girl to do my work." No, you do not. Money cannot pay the mother who cared for us in our helpless childhood, nor can money pay her or him who does for us what in our helpless state we are not able to do for ourselves. We are dependent and except for the help of others we could not live. "But, we give our 'help' food and drink." That is nothing. We do that to our enemy. If he hunger, we feed him; if he thirst, we give him drink, for we are Christians. We can never repay our debt to others. Our own subsistence is assured. Society is bound to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and give shelter to the stranger as much as the insurance company is bound to fulfill its obligations. Our lives and our fortunes are at the disposal of the commonwealth. We are drafted into her armies and made food for powder and our property is subject to her disposal in time of war. Therefore she is bound to see that her subjects are cared for in time of peace, as she cares for her soldiers in Fort Des Moines. "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." That is our debt to each other. "By love serve one another." There the matter ends. All service is (or ought to be) given with love and accepted with gratitude. All "class" distinction is done away. There are no "servants" (slaves). No woman at the head of the family today puts on the airs of the old-time slave-directing and slaveowning "missus." But if there be an exceptional case and a selfrespecting young woman finds herself treated with less consideration than sister or daughter, in the family where she has her home, she should shake the dust from her feet and leave that slave-pen forever. No one should put up with treatment from another not consonant with his or her position as a "son or daughter of God." YE 95TH LESSON. "Social Rot and Riot." Here is what a woman, who, forty years ago, worked in the kitchen of an Iowa farm house for a dollar a week, has to say on the "servant" question to a reporter of the morning daily that I have just now received: "The Chinese make good servants. They are neat, faithful, obedient, and nothing is too much trouble for them. The last Chinese servant I had attended to absolutely everything about the house; did the washing, made the beds and served an elegant dinner. And clean! He was always willing and eager to help. He never asked for an afternoon off. In fact, he was an ideal servant. Of course, he had to be paid pretty good wages. Fifty and $65 a month were the prices I paid mine. Of course, this would be a drawback to employing them universally, but if there were more in this country, of course they would be much cheaper.” Here we have the curtain lifted on one act of the play entitled "Social Rot and Riot," an American production more amusing than "The Merry Wives of Windsor" with Sir John Falstaff in the foreground. This Iowa ex-kitchen girl has had a great uplift in the |