People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — Bloody Revolution. [ARTICLE]

Bloody Revolution.

Ex-Congressman Tillman sees evidence of a coming revolution and believes that a bloody conflict is the only possible outcome. He regards such a contest inevitable and believes it will not be long delayed. He says: “Our people are desperate; we are approaching a war between the rich and the poor, and I look for lots of throat cutting between now and 1900. The millionaires have opposed the masses until the latter are like a squeezed lemon. They are unable to educate their children, to travel and improve their minds or to read books papers and magazines. They merely make a living, and a scant one at that. The millionaires buy up half the masses and put arms in their hands with whiclrto intimidate the other half, and thus keep them all in subjugation. The time is coming when these people will rise in a bloody conflict. I look for it during the

next presidential election or one after that. All the writers on our government unite in declaring that if this government ever goes to pieces, it will be during a presidential election, in a conflict over the spoils of office. Calhoun told the truth when he said that the tendency of republics was towards despotism, never toward aristocracies. So firmly do I believe that’this revolution is coming that I am already prepared for it. I have three sons and to that end I am giving them all a military education, so that when the throat cutting comes they will not be high privates in the rear rank.”

With the December issue, The Arena is reduced in price to twenty five cents per copy and to $3 per year, but this reduction in price is accompanied by no diminution in the excellence of this great liberal, progressive and reformative review; indeed, this issue is exceptionally strong. Among the emient thinkers who contribute to the one hundred and seventy-six pages which go to make up the body of the magazine, are Prof. Richard T. Ely, Justice Walter Clark, LL. D., Rev. Minot J. Savage, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Frank B. Sanborn, Rev. John W. Chadwick, Henry Gaullieur, Prof. George D. Herron, Prof. Frank Parsons, Prof. Joseph Rhodes Buchanan, Helen H. Gardener, and Will Allen Drotngoole. The last named opensa serial of Tennessee life. which promises to be intensely interesting, and which will runduring the nextsix issues of The Arena. Besides the one hundred and seventy-six pages which make up the body of the magazine, there are Editoral Notes and The World of Books, which prove of special interest to a large majority of Our readers, —all making more than two hundred pages of reading matter.

A change has taken place in the public taste in these latter days. Plays of the “blood and thunder” order are now back numbers. Studies of typical characters presented by competent and painstaking artists seem now the delight of the people. Foremost among this class of plays is “Old Farmer Hopkins” soon to be presented here by that capable and original artist, Frank S. Davidson and his superb compary. It is a delightful idyl of rural life, intelligently interpeted, the effective of which is greatly enhanced by a lavish display of costly scenery, effects, etc. One evening only Dec., 13The play of “Old Farmer Hopkins” is as pure as a breath of mountain air. Not a single objectionable feature can be found throughout the performance. Here is a play to which you can take your mother, your sister or your sweetheart, with the assurance that they will thoroughly enjoy every moment of the entertainment. The date is Dec. 13. —Democrat.