The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-21


CoMMUNIsM.-The rumors of eommppistie
, movemenk in the United States, which we have
been hearing for some weeks past, are very
largely magnified by the scnsationalism Of news
mongers. Wherever o body Of vorkmen use
rashand vehement Language they are at once
telegraphed over the continent as Communists.
Indeed, the name begins TO play the same part
in our current controversies that the nanfe
"Familist' did in the theological controversies
Of the Puritan period. Whenever you did not
like man, and did not exactly understand what
he would be at, You disposed Of him by saying
he was n Familist. So our hard money people
stigmatized ell their opponents, including the
National party, as Communists; and tho Nation
passed the name on to tho Protectionists; and
those who sympatize with capitalists afix it to
trades-unions and workingmen's parties and
tho National party In Indiana affix il to capital
lists and banks. The consequence of this loose
talk is not merely TO breed confusion in tho
minds Of those who indulge in IL. but to tendto
produce panic, both needless and in the high
est degree mischievous, in the mind OF the pub
lic. such panies are the necessary previous con-
dition OF those temporary submissions Of tho
majority to. the minority which in Europe are
called revolutions. They should be impossible
in this country, whore every citizen is accus-
toned to. insist that all social and political ac-
tion shall flow in the ample channels provided
by our laws.
or course there arc Communists in The United
States, many Of them. They arc most numer-
Gus in those quarters in which great bodies of
foreign-born workmen arc suffering under hard
times, and arc refreshing their memories MS to
the wild theories sown broadcast over Europe in
1913. But the temporary unrest and dissatis-
faction produced by hard times is not in any
large measure communistic in its character IL
has not become enmity to society and its insti-
tutions, and it would vanish in month if wa
gcs were better and work plenty Nor can
there arise any danger to our country from
Communism, or even from the more violent types
of discomfort which are not such. The upris-
ing or the have-nots against European govern
me7A is like the rush of mob against the AL
lee0 0lnies-and it is not the Alleghanies that
would be hurt.-I'ean Monthly.
JUDGE WILLIAM II. WALLAcE.-The present
visit Of Judge Wallace to Barnwell is, we be-
lieve, the first he ever paid to this county, but
he is no stranger to our people, for the splendid
services he has rendered to our mother State have
made his name household word in every true
Carolina home In the war between the States
his record as q brigade commander was without
fear Or reproacb, In the sad days of radical
misrule, as member Of the General Assembly,
no was watchful qua, dian Of the liberties Of
our people, and by his patience, courage and
fairness became on acknowledged power ip the
republican legislature; but in the dark hours
just before the day dawn-during the 'dead
lock- in the State House in December, 1876, he
''illustrated'' South Carolina in nsnner worthy
Of her most illustrious sons of tho olden time.
1--WE who with Wallace watoheI' can pevsr for
get the bravery, patience, wisdom and tender
ness with which he guided us in those stormy
days. In the prime Of vigorous. physical and
intellectual manhood, he promises to live long to
serve the people whom he loves 80 we'll, and
when his life's work is done they may well in
scribe rs his memorial, "The noblest Roman
of them all."-The People.
A NEWBEpRY QuEEN.GMiss Carrie Aughtry,
Of this County, pupil Of. the Columbia Female
College, was crowned queen Of the tete In Co
lumbia Friday night. The fete was COTTON up to
raise money for the Confederate Soldiers Monu-
ment All who wished TO vote for q queen could
do 80 by paying 10 cents q vote. The votes
themselves realized Sl15, and quite handsome
Herald.