Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — Socialistic Foes. [ARTICLE]

Socialistic Foes.

The great cities are now well equipped with Communistic contingents, the members of which gather in some vacant space every Sunday and holiday and give expression to whatever thought, malice andL ignorance may suggest. Among the orators are men who have been taught by the State itself to know the falsehood of their utterances, yet the persistence of evil in educated minds has overthrown that work of the State. When Christ was on Calvary he cried: “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.” So the benevolent citizen often feels towards the mass of the Communists. But people who tike the trouble to argue with these foes to humanity should use the history of the French Bevolotion to exhibit to the Black Flags the utter folly of their hopes of securing plunder from the rich classes. First, the orators would work each other’s execution, as Robespierre did Danton’s; as Tallien did Robespierre’s. Nest the non-combatants would execute them all in the end, to get rid oi them. Not only was this so in Paris in 1792, bnt the thing was repeated 1871. No sooner did one man rise to power than his comrades hurled him into prison. So fared Bergeret, Cluseret, and RosseL And when the people of France got hold of that motley host called the Commune of Paris, it adopted but one mode of procedure: Whoever smelled of petroleum was shot Eighteen thousand Communists fell defending their idiotic Committee of Safety, 6,000 men and women were shot at Satory, and 15,000 men and women endured the horrors of transportation to New Caledonia. In the older Paris the very cream of the patriots went to the Place de Grove and the Place de Revolution ! “O! Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!” cried Madame Roland, the Republican, as she approached the gnillotino. Let no Communist think he would gain by a Reign of Terror. Let every moderate man who half sympathizes with the Black Flags also remember that he would, in a month, be the Girondist, a certain offering upon the scaffold.— The Current