THE LOWEST OF MEN

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 69, 5 July 1912, Page 6

THE LOWEST OF MEN

The lowest and the most pitiable of human beings Is the 3cab. Denied by nature of all the higher virtues—courage, loyalty, and strength of willhe weakens In tho time of trial. He fails in the tost which proves a true man's worth. Yielding to those who despise him, he sacrifices the last shred of self-respect and sells his soul for bread. Starved in the mind and body, he eats the bitter bread of degradation, the Dead Sea fruit which "turns to ashes on the lips." During the stirring momenta of the strike, he sees upon the faces of the passing strikers the look of Inspiration. He hears their voices calling to each other In the warm tones of brotherhood. They are marching, eyes forward, to a day when Labor will have its own as a consequence of the courage and patience they now manifest. But he —the scab! Through all the years tt his life to come he will walk alone, forgotten by the master who bought him so cheaply, selfcondemned, humiliated, despised. Apart from men he will walk, a pariah, crying out in his loneliness for the answer of a comrade's voice which he will never hear. — "Chicago Daily Socialist."