Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Debs and His Dupes. [ARTICLE]

Debs and His Dupes.

At the very time in which the philanthropy of capital is advising means by which the garmentworkers,.possibly the most ill-paid 1 and hardest worked of wage-earn-ers, may better their condition by CQ-operatiye manufacture, the irrepressible Debs is yawping out his prophecies of armed rebellion. Debs is not of the “great unpaid,” nor of the great illpaid. This haranguer of the multitude toils not, neither does he spin. Nor does he wor-k for such pay as a schools teacher, or a country lawyer, or a country doctor, or a country preacher, or a Judge of a court of high jurisdiction in the rural district earns. Were Debs sober, prudent and thrifty, he himself soon would be a capitalist. He “spends and regales,” and yawps, and gulls his devotees. Yet the world moves. Ever the best intent of the best men and women is toward amelioration of the condition of those less fortuhatelhan themselves. —Everlegislation strives more fully to secure every human being the free exercise of the right of each to do tbe best that he or she cam do for himself or herself, according to the measure of the ability given by nature. Ever the heart of the world grows more compassionate toward those to whom nature has given but slightly of ability to succeed, and who, therefore, are poor. Ever, even, does the temper of mankind grow more contemptuously tolerant of the blatherskites and: jaw- smiths who, dike Mr. Debs, draw their unearned increment from the ignorance and fanaticism of their dupes.’ The bitterest foes that Eugene Debs ha 3 to contend with are not the “bloated capitalists,” but “the little red school-house” and the village church. Yet if Mr. Debs and his dupes proceed from insane or purposely deceptive rhapsody to riotous demonstration they willjjbe repressed quickly, and the next punishment of the leaders may be more severe than that of nominal imprisonment.—lnter Ocean.