Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — STOP! [ARTICLE]

STOP!

Such ill-omened despatches as these from Washington have been finding more or less of favor lately: It is regarded in high circles here that one of the effects of this outbreak will be to beget a much stronger public sentiment than ha . heretofore been apparent for an enlargement of the powers of the federal government to repress domestic violence. Some of the strongest advocates of the doctrine of State sovereignty have expressed this opinion to-day. It is claimed that had there been two hundred regular United States troops in Baltimore, commanded by cool and experienced officers, and with authority to act, in all probability there wo d have been no disturbance whatever in that city that, could not have been promptly nipped in the bud. Eyewitnesses of the horrid proceedings at Pittsburgh unhesitatingly say that five hundred regular troops could and would have saved the.name and fame of that ci y from the blot which now rests upon it. The scenes which we have witness cd are new in our experience, but we cannot blind ourselves now to the evidence that they may occur again, and on a f reater and more dangerous scale, if every precaution is not taken to render them impossible. Even the most extreme advocates of States’ t ights, it is hel 1, will admit that if we are to have any States at all it may be wise to concede something on this point.

These, succeeded by others, represent our aliunde administration as favoring an increase of the standing army. We say, STOP, right there. Wherever or whoever the “high, circles” are, it is evident that their education has been neglected. The less we have to do with ' standing armies” the better. We are not living under, either a “paternal,” or a despotic, or a more or less milder form of a “limited” monarchial style of government. We live where the citizen is the peer of the President, and the President but an Executive officer.

That it is a good kind of government has been fully demonstiated. That it has proved equal to the severest strains nobody, except an idiot, will dispute. Our internal discords have all been quieted—our National supremacy maintained, and against a more formidable assault upon its integrity than that of any other in his. tory. and by its volunteer Militia! Is that not tiue? And true, despite the schemings of the most adroit knaves who ever found a held to deploy their ambition by prott acting a war for plunder.—Lewistown (Pa.) DemocratU Sentinel.

Why did they strike ? Because of a reduction of wages. Why the reduction? Because of the falling off of freight business and the reduction of revenues? Why the falling off of business and diminishing of revenues? Closing of factories and cessation of productive industries. . Why the cessation of productive industries? Withdrawal of capital from industrial enterprises. Why the withdrawal of capital? The timidity of capitalists; the general doubt and uncertainty about the government’s policy with regard to the resumption it always, threatens and always prevents. \ Why this governmental vacillation ? To permit the “rings” that regulate the govemuieiital policy to make 50 per ©not. out of the fluctuations and eon traction. — Nashville American.