The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-10

oil the elements, these; and these
for madness, and terror, and sor-
row and shame" An abyss
yawns beneath the whole CONT
neHt of Europe, and hell from be.
meath is stirred to meet the mighty.
the gifted, the brave, the beautiful |
at their coming.
For . whole generation this
mad empire ragged and ravaged |
through Europe, an the name Of
liberty, to teach humanity how fu-
tile is brute force, unaccompauied |
by popular intelligence, for the
propagation of lasting liberty.
The French people exhausted, |
crushed, gasping from loss of
blood, can only renew the struggle
for liberty beneath the grinding
heel of military despotism!!
These are the lessons of history.
We should be warned and instruct
ed by them.
Ii we wish to reach the results
attained in England under Crom-
well, and in France under
Napoleon, then let US appeal to
physical force as the principal
remedy for existing evils. Let us
chop off the heads of our tyrants,
raze to the ground their castles
and bastiles, and guilotine the
aristocrats, as was the mistaken
practice of these great nations.
We have no use for physical
force in this country, as means
of reform,-ereept an self-aefence
sche'a Gssailed by force.
Reformers have no personal
quarrel with the bankers. When
bankers are law abiding men they
are legally blameless.
Our business is with the system
under which they act, and for
which you and / and every man
in America is responsible The
remedy for public evils in this
country consists in agitation, dis
cussion and popular enlighten.
ment.
Let the facts be proclaimed on
the housetops; let them be writer
on every trembling leaf of the
forest; emblazen them on the
disk of the MONDAY sun; let then
be chanted by the silvery moor
as she makes her nightly rounds
and let every star in the firmamen
OF God join their voices in demand
ing right and justice between
man and man. Reforms and rev
olutions carried in this way d.
not go backward, and that god
send of tyranny, called reaction
does not take place.
The order of Patrons of Hus
bandry is the best organized pow
er ever devised to aid the sons O
! laoor in this work of inter-eom
: munication and public enlighten
ment. tits the first instance il
r history when the serfs of the sol
2 have been able to meet their mas
ers on an equal footing, as to OIL
ganization and discipline. Agri
cultureSis depressed and severed
, suffering Sfor thespresent, but ther
> are bright hopes for, the future
) The great movement for our dis
, enthrallment is fully inaue
| urated. All of the grea
: western and southern State
. are, hand in hand, commit
ted to the holy enterprise. Dis
, tant New England, amid her gran
tie Businesses, sends us her cheer
. ing voice. The chorus is swelle
and rcverberated as it pass
f es the Alleghanies, an,
. sweeps along the grea
l lakes, from the Hudson riv
er to Chicago. Far off OregoI
sends us her greeting of clubs an,
oranges everywhere formed an,
: forming, for the marshaling con
, fiict. In a few years more tn
/ mighty anthem of labor, free, en-
francisco, enthroned-paramoun
3 in the forum and the council cham
: ber-will resound from the Atlanti
to the Pacific. Over St. Louis ant
Chicago-over Wall Street an
,, Washington-along the grea
) trunk railways, and in ever
cSlSldGIFo HoIi, IL Will Toll l.
? thunder admonitory. Railroad
kings, great bank presidents ant
J stock gamblers, will read on ever,
. wall the fate of Nebuchadnezzar
their great prototype and exam
plar: These successes and victo
, ries are ours SO soon as we, b,
faith and labor, really deserv
, them. Let US never forget tn
. motto; ''IHe Ldscs 0lsedys .fdCO
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