People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — Time to Be Radical. [ARTICLE]

Time to Be Radical.

The time has come, in the opinion of : the Mercury, to throw conservatism to the dogs, along with Shakspeare’s ! physic, and to get down to a radical basis. j If the people of America are truly Americans and propose to perpetuate the system of government established by the patriotic fathers of the revolution, they must get on a basis of defense. | There is an organized invasion of America by English tories at this time and this army has the aid and sympathy of your president, and in fact of your whole administration. It Is sweeping over this once happy land like a pestilence. j The object of this tory invasion is to destroy the American republic and erect upon its ruins an English autocracy, and so sure as God reigns this will be done unless the American people wake up and put on the patriotism, i faith and fight laid down by the revolutionary soldiers at the end of the seven years’ war. There is no further need for speculation on this matter or conservatism in action in the premises?' Don’t be blinded by lesser Isms! Don’t doctor the pimples and boils on the body politic when the vitals are diseased! A radical remedy must be applied or the republic of our fathers Is dead! We feel the grave importance of the movement, and if we could we would light the liberty fires on every mountain and hilltop in the land. The enemy is at your very doors. You will be robbed and forced into slavery before you are aware of it. Wake up, people, and strike for your homes and your liberties! If you are worthy to be called the descendants of revolutionary sires, talk and act now, 1 for your liberties are assaulted, your homes are being destroyed and your j families pauperized! Be ye men or be ye cowards that you will sit silent and inactive while the minions of goldocracy are plotting your ruin and despoiling your birthrights of liberty! The time for conservatism has gone, we repeat; it i 3 now time to face the foe and fight! Every day you delay you will be less able to prepare for the contest that is surely coming upon the American people.—Southern Mercury.