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

WORDS OF WISDOM.

John Swint—’i Great Hy eh on Inker Dsy. In bis Labor Day address at Chicago, John Swinton said,amid great laughter: “I stood some years ago near an avalanche In the Alps which could not be stopped by an injunction. I fled from a blizzard in Dakota which could not be thwarted by any court, not even in Woods’. I felt the rumble of an earthquake in Sicily which could not be quelled by an editorial in all the Chicago papers. I saw the floods of Niagara which mock the army—aye, even the militia. Against the sweep of the comet what could Cleveland do, though he were the pope who sent a bull after it? Let us disapprove of all these forces of nature, but what is your lack? It makes no difference whether or not you favor an earthquake. Let the court enjoin it. Let the squibblers of the press Bquibble against it. Let the preachers snivel at It as they did today at Mr. Keir Hardie. Let the uniformed terrorists of the soldier straps hold up their little guns against it. It is coming. “Crack goes the earthquake, and the Hebrew slaves march out of Egypt while Pharaoh sinks in the Red sea. Crack it goes again, and the agrarians of Rome seize their short swords. Crack! And old Noll is atop in England. Crack! And the serfs of Germany and Hungary carry havoc before them. Crack! Once more and the forces of the French revolution give death to monarchs —Louis' head falls Into the basket. Crack! Again, George Washington confronts George 111. Crack! Again, and. old Abe rides the earthquake till chattel slavery falls, falls, though bruised by church and editors and capital and congress and poor old Buchanan and the old dotard of the supreme court. Crack! Again Garibaldi is in his red shirt. Crack! Goes the earthquake now and then, again and again, the wide world over. We have heard it thrice in our own country within a century, and God help us hear it again. The sovereignty of nabobs must be overthrown.”