Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1894 — Probably True Now. [ARTICLE]

Probably True Now.

More Republicans were elected to congress in the solid south than there were democrats elected to congress in the north. In the present house there are six southern Republicans—two from Tennessee and one each from South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri. In Jhe next house there will be 34 hailing from nine statqju In the present house there are 98 democrats from the north. In the t ext there will be 14. The Republicans have gained 28 in the south. The Democrats have lost 84 in the north. Heretof. re it has been a solid south and a divided north. It has taken less than two years of derm cracy and free trade legislation to reverse the conditions. It used to be said that Grover Cleveland was “bigger than his party.” Considering how little there is left of the party the statement may now be accepted as actually true.

pLatt week’s Pilot on its editorial page, reprinted from the London Echo, a blatant anarchist sheet, the article which we copy, below. The Pilot gives the piece its nearly unqualified endorsement in the words: “That while it is a little extravagant, there is much truth it.” This is the article:

The signs of the times indicate that before the sun rises on June 1, 1900, the great American nation will groan and writhe in an agony of revolution and the streets will be slippery with blood. A hundred drops of blood for each gem that flashes on the necks of the rich and pampered women, and ten drops of blood for each tear that has washed the face of the poor. \ Every election is carried by fraud and toodle. Politics is so rotten that it stinks. Everybody knows it and nobody cares. 1 America is no longer a republic. It is a plutocracy. The President is merely the creation of the banks, or bank directors, railroad kings and coal barons, and it is the same with the governors of the states. The poor whine about their poverty and gnaw their crust of bread but can always be counted on to vote for the rich and shoulder their muskets and lay down their lives in defense of the right of the rich to rob them. A nation such as this, in which one million plutocrats tyranize over sixty millions slaves, will either be overthrown by a- foreign power or.drowned in its own blood or die of gangrene. The various organizations neither think together, nor work together, and they have no money to buy votes, lawyers and judges. Soldiers and police shoot down labeling people and are cheered on in their bloody work by monopolistic editors, capitalists and the clergy. But the day will soon come when there will be a horrible d«nee to death, lighted up by burning bouses and the music Of

cries and groans and dynamite bombs. Rich idlers amuse themselves at Newport and Tuxedo; poor workers toil ceaselessy in the darkness of the mine and the din of the mill. x Toung men and woman dawdle over iced champagne and oyster patties;old men and women pick rotten food out of the garbage cans. Lap doge are driven through Central Park to take the air; children die of over-work in filthy garrets. —.-.'A.. 1 ' 1 1 Piety in the white house “enduring” the fruits of bribery— infidelity in the tenement house enduring the punishment of uprightness.

These are the signs of the times in America today—signs that point to calamities too dreadful to imagine, but which nothing can avert?’ The essential falseness of all the pretended statements of facts and conditions, in the above article, false and outrageously false as they are, is not by any means the worst feature of the articles The principles which such articles in culcate in the minds of those ignorant enough, weak enough, or blind enough to believe the statements they contain, are their worst feature. The person who reads and believes the statements in this article, so approvingly quoted by the Pilot, has not only ceased to be a patriot, ceased to love and respect his country, but has gone a long way towards becoming an out and out anarchist, —a member of that fast increasing class in whose fanatical madness, there looms portentious danger, not ouly to the stability of our own country and its noble institutions, with the consequent danger to the happiness and well being of our people, but danger to the very fabric ot civilization itself.

The Pilot professes great grief and indignation when the term “anarchistic” is applied in any manner to it or its teachings, or to the teachings of its party. But h-'W much worse is it to be an actual anarchist in your own belief, than to be a teacher of anarchy to others?