The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-31
THE STRIKE.
THE PRESENT STRIKE A sERvILE IN
sURRECTIOS AGAINST A MON
EYED ARISTOCRAGY.
The Strike to End soon, Hut Liable no he
Reiightcd at No Distant Hour.

Reiightcd at No Distant Hour.
Especial Correspondence Of the N. O. Democratl
NORWICH, N. Y, July "a.
Jhe American worsingman has at last be-
gun to put in practice the theories which he
has for some years been industriously culti-
vating. The statesmen, publcists and
philosophers Of the North have always scout
cd the idea of agrarian revolution as impossi-
blo They pointed triumphantly TO
THE GRANGE MOVEMENT,
and said: "There were your agrarans, wide
ly organized and Thoroughly in oarnestl
Where was their revolution ard what has be-
come Of themY
So, also, of the worltingmen tho optimist
philosophers and the pubests, who wrote
not Of society as it actually exists, but of the
state of society which their millionaire en-
ployers wished-sU also these were wont to
write OF the workingEen. The Utopian pic
ture of the workingman was n frugal peas
ant-sovereign, living in neat little cottage,
where when he came home every night, or
every Saturday night, as the case might be-
he was greeted by tidy housewife and half
q dozen calico-clad urchins, all clean, pretty
and well-fed upon bounteous, albeit plain
fare. This Utopian workingman. as the Carl
Schurz, John Sherman and Jay Gould school
of philosophers were always telling US, in
variably had his spare savings snugly invest
cd in a 7-30 or $50 bond and of course
strongly favored the demonstration of silver |
But
THE REAL WORKING MAN OF THE NORTH
was grim, sullen man, vainly trying to
make his wife and children comfortable upon
a meagre earning, the sum total of which
would not have sufficed the rich neignbor, in
whose shadow he lived and toiled for cigar
money. Meanwhile the country was under
going the squeezing process called in official
circles resumption" and in commercial
parlance contraction Those who have
looked at things in the proper light have
seen, and those who are in the habit of calling
things by their right names have compre-
hended, that the whole policy of power in this
country for the last; ten years has been that of
making the rich richer and the poor poorer
to use homely phrase. Theoretically, all
men are born free and equal in this country.
The men who controlled and directed the
energies of the party in power have taken
that proposition as the foundation of their
political philosophy, and from it have gone
on to build up
A MONEYED ARIsTOCRACY:
to confer all sorts of special privileges upon
favued persons and corporations, until they
have divided our population into classes
which lack only titular distinctions to make
the lines that separate them as sharply de-
fined as they are anywhere in the Old World.
So, while the South was being reconstruct
ed, while the Federal Government was sauan-
dering the centralized power which was the
residuum of the war in subiecting the South
ern whites to the rule OF their former slaves,
its financial policy was creating
A NEW sERFDoM AT THE NORTH.
This now serfdom has now risen and. while
known in newspaper phrase as a "strike of
railway employees" 1t is really nothing less
than servile insurrection of the most ap-
palling magnitude, and, thus far, of the most
character. The aristocfacy of the
North does its business in Wall street. and
the Treasury OF the United States is its bank
ing house. 1t embraces, let us say, in round
figures one-tive hundredth part of the total
and owns, in one way or another,
nine-tentils of the productive property. OF
course these are rough estimates. do not
pretend that they are strictly accurate. But |
when we get down to the bottom and grope
through real estate records, rent rolls and all |
other footprints which wealth leaves behind |
n its tlreless march OF oppression, the evil
1ences OF the centralization of property in a
ew hands during the last ten years become
appalling.
Ii this movement were nothing more than
is name implies" q strike of railroad en-
,loyes for higher wages its formidableness
would not be worth more than passing no
ice and it could easily be suppressed by the
'olice. But it is really the beginning of the
ong threatened and much-ridiculed war be-
ween capital and labor or rather, to put It
no e logically,
ERVfLE INSURRECTION AGA INST THE ARIs-
TOCRACY
7hlch has been built up in the North during
ecent years. have often discussed the pos
lbility OF such an uprising with the money
ings, and they have always secuted it. eff
ur men strike" they said, eve can employ
thers.'
Suppose your men strike riotously pre-
enting others from taking their places ?'
On, in that case we will call on the author
les to clean them out with the militia
But possibly the militia being itself
Lrgely composed of the disconnected class
lay join the revolt instead of suppressing it,"
We'll, then, we will call upon the Federal @
government" -
Upon such blind faith in and such
NTHINKING RELIANCE ON 'THE FEDERAL ;
GOVERNMENT .
lis late growth aristocracy Of the North has n
ways depended. 1t saw that the Federal r
overnment could set up and bowl down Q
5ates at the South as if statecraft were a
anne OF ten-pins; why could not the same {
over set up and bowl down institutions at [
e North whenever occasion might require
lch is the philosophy that has soothed the ;,
ars of the capitalist and brought sleep to q
e tossed pillow of the millionaires. But il
thin the last three days the moneyed aris- p
cracy of the North has seen a great light. o
ne illumination Of two million dollars worth
burning DrODartv at pittGhuro bac