, 1877-08-29

sive measures. But the alliance which
gave over Pittsburg to rapine and COZ
hagration a week ago ha been formed
also ia other c.ties-iu Chicago, II. Louis,
Cinciaat5i. aad even New York-and
mig4g ave SHOWN itself OF even a greater
scale, ii the public spirit of the majority
had not been aroused in time.
1t ia nor dificlIt to understand why
there should os a gathering feeling Of
ang-r against the Railway Corporations
in the United States; their enormous
power and their dictatori4t methods pro-
woke irritation not only among their ser
wants, but among the public and though
the Changer mo yemen vas discreditpd by
many fo.lies, the feelings 10 which it
gave expression are peral@Eent and s'rong.
Nor is it surprising jhat tie w~0rkiDg-cIass-
eS IN the States should be soued by their
recent r%everses, by the stagna'ion OF husi.
ness, the fall in the rare Of wages. mud he
timidiry of capiteI. Dul giving ;he tul est
credit 10 these :iuances, we Go not GcG
any nearer 70 ta- moi i've power wOicn
turned a dispute INTO civil war. There
must be otner causes al vclk, and OF
GOuiSE : / Il "a AittS Ai"
history Of these rio5s reveals the eX:Stenc3
Of q mcnacing Communis io propaganda,
T. NV York and chicago, illeed, 4 hand
iu, of Socialist fanatics hay, rndcAYUUleJ
to turn tue prevailing excitement to tia
proit of their ptcuiiar vi w, but they
haze produced bar lily a,y p~ercep,jb!'
effect. The real origira,ing canee 10 the
recept disturbances was rot at all Com
muniotic that is, it was nor inietIi4eHtIy
hostile to property as ri institution, ro.
to society as constituted in the United
States upon the basis Of i1~,uud}iSm. It
was mad, biiud anger 1T the pressure CT
the ''hard times" directed against the
classes who have been held VI % popular
ex"cration by polit chi agitators, ami IN
tenS'6od by IA knowledge q the IaScaliy
swiucIes perpetrated by soale oithe Amerl-
can RaiiroaI Rnas. Tho persistence
with which those ag.tators have drclaim-
cd against the Gryeraul~ut, ths ub.ic
Debt, the resumption policy, and the
m~on0no'ist power Of the Railways has
had lis %oatural influence uo0a he l9no.
RAJ. and disconnected nasse5 now gather.
ed 10 al the great cities of the Union.
Tts Domocra'lc aSsaiIauts of the Federal
authority, the Gree back party. the Gran
gers, tue Republican enemies OF Presl-
dent Haze, have one an all been telling
the worklng-ma2 in America that under
some new systtm-tIH', that, or TIE other
-''harl times" must disappear, and every
body be happy. Phase God, we'll hav9
good, aisy times when Tilden'S elected -
said a poor Inshman who sought relief IN
the w|olknouse on B'ackwa is Is ard last
winter. The alluring hopes danSled be-
fore the eyes Of Iab0urefs Out OF work, or
dissatisfied with a reduction Of wages,
have been lett vague and shadowy; they
do NOT look directly ~ ary Colnmunist;c
reconstruction OF society, ana they a"e
not infected wi a any %malSpant feelings
against glasses. ,ucA rs tboSr or0aeh. 20
light in Revolutionary troubles .ou tie
European Continent. Bat there age such
hopes, mingled with anger against Po'll-
clans, railway m0gnates, and CONSPICUOUS
capitalists, vino have been cha'gel win
eve,y variety OF c%crrup'iop by the pro-
tessioual demagosucs, and arroi5ned as
the irreconcilabio enemies u The pooF.
And 10 the imagination OF the excited
masses, it is these enemies, controlling
tie machinery Of Government aad us
physical force, u ho send soldiers TO shoot
down the honest wo' kmen when they
o1o;.o 4Lo;. ~;uLts froo, thp mOuoOolIstS.