The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-08-04
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hoarse with the cry of fraud" woulC
ascribe the rioters strike to the deci
sion of the Electoral Commission the
prediction would have been regarded
as joke yet that is just what has
been done. Now, so long as a single
person making any pretensions to
ordinary intelligence can be found
who will pretend that there is any
relation of cause and effect between
the settlement Of the late Presid'
tial controversy and the viole'
breaks in Pittsburg and other plao,
we ought not to be surprised at the
wild talk of communists, whose So
cial system is free from the suspicion
of resting upon any foundation of
common sense.
We do not believe that the out
| speaking communists are to be great
! ly feared-the men who say that
there ought to be general redistri-
button of property, that the "bloated
bondholders" and other rich capt.
talists must divide with the poorer
classes. Why the demand should
be restricted to bondhS 'ars who o.
bloated sud G;e s;tei intS
we do not see, because it is &C,
they have not enough money IL
round, and the deficiency must
made up by small capitalists v
have hoared very little out of til
hard earnings, and slender bob
holders, whose deposits in savit
banks are invested in public sex
rites. But these men will sec1
little attention. No educated WON
ingman who cares anything orhis
country, his family or himself, vii
listen to a proposal to OverthpW
organized society, because he know
that he would suffer first, last hl
longest from the proceeding.
The assertion which has been nndeI
that there are in this country haf al
million of Communists ready to Pc
; gin the work of destruction at short
notice, is probably as wild as any
other outgivingS of these philosEh-
ical lunatics. Whether there are
many or few of them, however, they
must be looked upon as public enc
mics. Their private talk and their
harangues at public meetings if they
choose to hold any, will be protected
upon the ground of the large Liberty
conceded to freedom of speech of all
kinds; but they must expect to be
suspected, and they must not be str
prised if, in the event of overt acs,
things go rather had with them. in
the same class Of public enemies
must be put the men who tai k
loosely about bringing corporate
mOnOpolies to terms and pullifg
down the managers of this or IT,
great public business. Now, the
is only one way of bringing anyboe
-. e+en.s..a.4s ,- whc:., -A~.-'azs4
shareholder, a direction, or railro;
manager, and that is by compellir
him to obey the law. Nobody il
this country, 50 long as he does obey
the law, can be pulled down. al
These classes of madmen directI
incite to instruction; they do 81
knowingly. There are other way
Of encouraging instruction, les
: direct and unintentional, but scarce
: ly less effectual. Whatever enco1r.
ages the strikers and rioters to believe
that they can succeed in their violen'
measurerS has such a tendency
Every day the State and Fedora
Governments fail to put down tn.
rioters they encourage them, and Sc
incite to instruction. We believe
that any yielding just now to thu
demands of the strikers has a like
effect; and therefore we are afraiC
that the Central Pacific and othel
railroad companies which are report
ed to have raised wages in obedience
to the violent demonstrations of the
last few days have made mistake.
We are not deciding what the
wages ought to be. We should like
to see the railroad men paid as well
as they ever have been, though we
do not see how they can be. 1t is
possible that the late reduction was
wrong. But these questions are not
in order just now. What we have tc
settle at present, and for all time tC
come, is that such questions cannot
be decided by riot in this country.
To yield to the strikers noW-even il
in other circumstances the concession
would be- ust--Would be to Encourages
the desperate and dangerous classes
who have made the strike the preteXt
of instruction and these classes, we
believe, are made up of other and
worse than railroad men.-N. y. Post
Why the South is at Peace.
We are glad to see the South KEPT
almost antirply free from this cOfiict