THE COMING STRUGGLE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 17, 26 January 1878, Page 3

THE COMING STRUGGLE.

The fact can be disguised no longer; it must he met. The tide of America's prosperity has turned. Industry has been lashed to its last convulsive efforts, and now sinks beneath its load Relief must come —thorough aud swift rtlief—or n revolution will sweep over this land, moro terrible than the world has yet seen. Ho who imagines that the existing conflict is a mere struggle between employer and employed fearfully mistakes the true import of this crisis. Wc claim no special knowledge on this subject. The portents of the hour are an open book, and he who runs may read. The holders of bonded wealth, in the madness of their greed, are pressing the people at every point. Let them remember that the tremendous power which they so pitilessly wield derives its sole efficacy from the sufferance of their victims. It is not in menace that we speak, nor in supplication—for we scorn alike to threaten or to implore—but in a tone of solemn warning we tell the oppressors of industry that they are sleeping on the crust of a volcano. The first slight throes havo been felt; let thorn beware of the catastrophe 1 The element of labor, as it is the first to suffer, may be the first to revolt. We oirncstly hope that it may not be so. Wo conjure the working-nmn to remember that his causo is the cause of American industry; that <'verv merchant, every manufacturer, every farmer in the land is his natural ally ; that the individual employer has but little to do with the law that governs the rate of wages; that the master tyrant is the landholder, for the bondholder controls the omployer as a military despot controls his drill sergeants. Wo know that it is difficult to reason with human wretchedness; we know the fearful energy of necessity when pushed to its last resource; but wo know that labor, if driven to its direst extremity, will have the sympathy and conscience

Of ma.ikiud on its sidf. The workingman is being batted like .1 badger in its den, Every outlet has been blocked ; the industrious arc peotrate ; Ike public ian.is liave been engrossed; 110 avenue of MCApe remains. Hut let not the oppressor imagine that his vietim is a poor worm to turn and feebly stiug and perish unavenged. -It is only in his last extremity that he will rise to the full measure of his strength. " Like the Hebrew champion, he is yet held in captivity by his blindness. But if oneo the eyeless giant shall find a guide to put his hand on the props of tho pillars, woe to all who have made him their laughing stock, or chained him to grind at their mill ! " —" Daily Evening Post," San Francisco.