People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Who Are the Anarchists? [ARTICLE]

Who Are the Anarchists?

King Cotton at sc. Debs is granted bail. • Cash wheat in Rensselaer 45c. Will Cleveland be impeached? A war ship has sailed for Honolulu. The gold reserve has fallen to $70,000,000. A bill for w’oman’s suffrage is pending before the Illinois legislature. Another bond issue in sight. St. Jackson, what do you think of modern democracy? The president’s wife did not postpone her “tea” because of the death of Miss Stephenson. David B. Hill’s position on the silver question cannot be determined by any known form of astronomical calculation. The “reform” republican mayor of New York refuses to close the saloons on Sunday although that was the issue upon which he was elected. Shades of Jefferson, is it democracy for the government to borrow gold of the bankers at 5 per cent and loan its credit, national bank notes, back to them again at half of one per cent. ?

The farmer has no lobbyist at congress—the sugar trust apparently has its labby in congress. —jr The Michigan legislature proposes to compel railroads to sell 500 mile tickets for SIO.OO, good until used and transferable. Why not reduce rates to 2c a mile and give the man who can’t buy a 500 mile ticket an even show. A United States senator lives at Fairfield, lowa. His name is Wilson. He has been a senator twelve years. He induced Carnegie to give his native town, Fairfield, a $50,000 public library. Senator Wilson sees no flaws in the Carnegie armor plates. The Carnegie armor plates—rotten, brittle, soft, blow-holed, short weight, short count and fraudulent in a score of particulars have been accepted by the secretary of war, and congress told to call off its investigating committee. Whence the pull? Did you hear about it? Ten populist votes in the house prevented congress from saddling a system of wild cat banks on the people, and it was only last .week. Yes, these irredeemable, fiat, anarchistic, socialistic, revolutionists—they are the fellows whose votes forbid the act - -these men you call inflation cranks. You know not the manner of men of whom you speak. With the granting of bail to Dabs and his six associates by t4io supreme court of the United States, the law, the constitutional law,, of the land begins to assert itself, and, mark the assertion, it will not pause until the wronged men are vindicated and their infamous persecutors rebuked. And with the decision from this high tribunal will come condemnation of the court practices that ever made their arrest possible.

■ The usual, and decidedly the easiest way, to meet the disagreeable facts of incontrovertible economic philosophy, is to call aloud, “anarchy, repudiation. blasphemy, treason and revolution.” Such is the refuge of the true anarchist who defends as right the unconstitutional sending of federal troops into a sovereign state contrary to the wishes of that state; who applauds the , anarchistic judge who commits men to prison without giving them their constitutional right of trial by jury;-' who advocates the loaning of money to bankers at the half of one per cent a year without security; who wants to see the army increased and used for the trusts and corporations against the common people; who wants to havo the nation loaded with interest bearing bonds for posterity to pay; who in time of campaigning reviled the administration with charges of treason, corruption and incompetency, but who now considers it blasphemy to criticize the same high functionary or unfavorably compare him with men whose power of brain and devotion to humanity are as much superior to the statesmanship and philanthropy of his adopted saint, as he imagines this dictatoiial demi-god to excell his own great entity.

Anarchy! Why from the day that the martyred Lincoln died, the ruling political party has ever taught anarchy by its own bold object lessons; it was the spirit of anarchy that attempted to impeach Johnson; it was anarchy that gave Hayes the presidency; it was anarchy that gave the public domain and millions upon millions of dollars to railroadsjt was anarchy that consummated the salary grab; it was anarchy, when, less than eighteen months ago, two judges of the United States courts reduced the wages of men upon railroads, of which they were receivers, and forbid the employes quitting work, singly or as a body, under penalty of contempt. Patriotism! Why the worthy editor of the Republican, who loudly prates of that loyal sentiment. and to whom this article refers, does not know that every spark of that sacred element of true citizenship has retreated within his shrinking soul in horror at his blind idolitry of party. Continue to print, blind brother, the colnmns of anarchy with which these pages burn; dip up the blood of revolution and hold it to your thirsting readers’ lips, that they may drink at the fount of eternal truth, but. in so doing, have a care that you do not kindle a self-consuming tire, or stain your garments with crimson spots.