Crossword-Solution: TOILER 6 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Invariably it was the needy who won, the destitute and starving woke to wealth and plenty, the virtuous toiler suddenly found his reward in a ticket bought at a hazard; the lottery was a great charity, the friend of the people, a vast beneficent machine that recognized neither rank nor wealth nor station.

Now, if all were meek and pure, Save the ungodly and the unruly, would the Christian Church endure? Shall the toiler or the fighter dream by day and watch by night, Turn the left cheek to the smiter, smitten rudely on the right? Strong men must encounter bad men--so-called saints of latter days Have been mostly pious madmen, lusting after righteous praise-- Or the thralls of superstition, doubtless worthy some reward, Since they came by their condition hardly of their free accord.

Thankful for the plenty that our peaceful land has blessed, For the rising sun that beckons every man to do his best, For the goal that lies before him and the promise when he sows That his hand shall reap the harvest, undisturbed by cruel foes; For the flaming torch of justice, symbolizing as it burns: Here none may rob the toiler of the prize he fairly earns.

Each weary toiler, with lingering pace, As he homeward turns, with the long day done, Looks out to the west, with the light on his face Of the setting sun.

The gloom of the monotonous present is brightened, the patient toiler returns to his desk with something definite before him--an objective point--towards which he can struggle; he knows that this is no impossible dream.