Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-02
GO n REGISTER
TRAIN AND HIS srEECHEs

Il Is the business Of q newspaper, II II
be q newspaper, to present the world Is it
is and Is it Is likely to become. We live
outside the great current Of human events.
and are hardly conscious of the progress
Of the worlds opinions. Our preiudices
are little affected by facts that conyulse
Europe, and by ideas that permeste the
whole social system Of densely populated
northern cities and States. European
ideas come to US filtered first through
English reviews and newspspeM. and
again transformed n modified By the press
Of New York. We have hardly learned
that the people Of Europe, v Of en-
hghtened, wisely-goverDed Germany. are
ripe for revolution, and that 50 potent
have the people become that they, the
toiling, down trodden multitudes, robbed
by land monopolists, IS We are by bond
monopolists, and by omnipotent corpo-
~rstions, have asserted their p-rerOgatives
sven through such m~outh-pieces ss Dis
rseAs ana Gladstone and Bismarck. States.
men are prepared, it seems, 70 coucsse
something 70 the miseIies Of those wbose
heritage, for centuries, has been abiect
poverty, deprivation Of every right, ssve
that Of supporting sristOerstio systems.
supplying food for powder and bullets and
o-fsggrsndizing crowned heads. The people
Of Europe are weary OF systems which.
In England, give to three hundred fami-
lies al the land in the kingdom, while
one Of every ten Of the people are pau
pers and millions sre STEPPED in the ut
most poverty, having no rights save those
Of starving and Of rearing children 10 en-
dure the same iTremmedisbls evils. Il is
natural that communism finds advocates
in such countries and under such govern
ments; 1t is unnatural that communism,
a. We understand the term, should havs
opponents in America. We may be forced
70 crush the banks, bondholders and ON
nipotsnt eve enduring railway CORPORA.
lions; but there is NJ necessity, while the
republic exists, until Grant grasps an
imperial scepter through the intervention
OF these corporations, for the adoption In
America Of the communistic theories Of
France and E glsnd. In fact the term
communism h different signifcsncsin
different countries. It means, IS approved
by liberal mot radically French papers,
local independence-ihe right Of cities and
(commUBes) 70 regulate, IS Mem
phis does, their own internal affair; 70 {
Adopt their own laws and modes and {
Of taxation. This Is the int4li-
gent communism Of Europe, which per ]
ysdes Germany and wide districts or c
France and England. These communists /
hsye, IN fact only adopted American S
modes Of thinking. 1t is only In Paris {
hat the rshhls runs mad. There the q
poPulace have been wrOnged and robbed g.
trSmpleG under foot By brutal klues a
by q more selfish, naughty and corrupt &
.ristooracy; and there the sans ssaoaes Z
capable Of any crime, snd ready for Il
nv violent and thorough destruction OF a
N social and religions systems. Dickens, a
EBglishmsD, IN the "Tale of Two Il
titles . has Id Us how brutslly and re- v
norseiessly the French pop1lsce bsve 81
zen wronged, snd why, when freed from a
estrsiDts, they have done such violent is
leeda- Dickens, an E1giishmsn, could Z
lot condemn sven the French rsb-
Noblemen threw oOppers from fa
zach Windows when the wheels al
the children Of poverty in TIE di
and thia was an end Of it. Power "a
? has only the right to breathe ana min ps
ter 70 tbs ~splsndors Of opulencs where Is
and q titled nobility give laws 70 IN
country. And such = country must an
lis become If the aristOcracy Of wealth pe