plunder, that is interesting us just now. Is there a way out of the
night of despair? is the question that should be met, and, if possible,
answered. Finding a way out of a difficulty is one thing, however, and
having the courage to take it is another. Modern surgery has discovered
much, but without the courage to use the knife mankind would not have
been the gainer. The prayer meeting has its uses, but those who expect
to obtain political or industrial deliverance in that quarter can set
out their rain-gauges and go there; but those who know the nature of the
fellow who has been grabbing all in sight will make him let go in the
old-time way by using a force superior to his own - a force that he will
feel when it comes down, supposing the power to feel is left in him.

We have no hatred of the rich - nor love of the poor, for that matter.
They are both fishers for gain, and one gets it, and the other don't;
but his basket is just as large. But we are a lover of justice, and if
one is too much for the other would handicap him, and thereby make the
struggle for existence more even for both. The weakling, will always be
a weakling, whatever laws are passed for his benefit, and the drudgery
of the world will ever be his portion; from it he can never escape, but
he is entitled to his life, and if the able denies him, what is
necessary to it, then Justice must step in and take his part.

Volumes could be padded in showing how this can be done, but we can
demonstrate in this brief work how poverty can be obliterated as a
feature of our national life, and if it does not make justice more
even-handed for all, and the people of this country as prosperous as any
on earth, then the fault must be in the plan itself, and not in the
resources which we possess, for of those we have enough to empty every
poorhouse in the land, and eighty-five per cent. of the jails and
penitentiaries.