The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-07
..o Sally Of Communism.

.ISt IOui. newspapers il the alleged
1i l.i..,oI ,be Communists in thOse cities
.,,n. ~, ,be clO.e surveillance Of the po-
:. The names Of the places where the
C,"npDi,t, w. meet for organization and
LII . we'll As OF the leading spirits
a,, .',,,,b.u, have been fully and repeat
M, published in said papers, .
It jiffcul. TO say just how much oi
-. ,s,it Communism really is in those
NJ, # i, certain that it has an exist
M. not only in Chicago and 81
Iori. bu, also in Cincinnati, Bal
'ino,, ,ud New York. The papers
!. If these cities have noted day
m, ,I,,. manifestations Of a disposition
:, ,,,,plls into some such ill.omened
p,r,n,us on the part oi certain per.
.s,.' mostly lOreignes-who are out oil
,,DIo,u.nt, We notice, however, that
a. ,ouII-te-tllOnght leaders in these
u,ns.nl. are very accessible to the re-
syt.r and that they are by no means
,tasl u to what they propose doing.
ISsd they are apparently ambitious to
suitlen up in the newspapers. They
wa to have no objection IL being con-
fI.,sI lhe advance Of rising storm
h4l i. presently to overcast tue heavens
al soapd our horizon.
Fpu this lack Of relicence on the part
d lbre who call themselves communists
pu. PERSONS may he disposed 10 look
upa ths appearance Of the communicate
vr,piuliOns in our cities as unimport-
nj liIin. And yet it is known that
!GsE persons meet one or two nights in
d, week, that they have arms and that
&y 70 through a regular drill in the
ik oI lhese arms,
Gnune it isquite possible that many
dlhe members Of these organizations are
usr blalherskiles, who are drawn into
ben by 4 SORT Of military excitement, as
Rll ~ by a certain common bond OF iel-
bsIhlp that uniles unemployed men
UAo have been told that their
hgts would never be respected by
h' makers and capitalists until they
llav,I themselves formidable in the way
Organizations. Perhaps majority Of
Ia. who attach themselves 10 these
sanuuistic organizations do so thought
ealy, and with no intention Of being
E'd Ito sl law and order at defiance or
b make war on the property Of the
@uulry.
No man raised in America, unless be
!nbtn kept in the outer darkness o.
IsOnnt, or unless he is at heart de-
Ptl'sd sort Of vandal, can be a Commu-
aia1 Tor The reason that he knows that
property changes hands in our midsI
'iA !hs greatest rapidity, and that We
haze 20 property class as such in the
uniitlSll There are every variety
iRorhy holders in this broad land O.
ltstaou, IRON the men who own drays OF
Oui EtissIs up 10 the men who own q
A'Vs and lot, and up again to the men
'A'OTn two or three houses; so on up
iOtbsu uiu who owns ten, twenty, thirty
ati! md one hundred thousand dol
in. Some men have money in the
ii'lng banks, some have bank stocks
some have more or less stock in manufac.
turing concerns, some are buyers
ind sellers Of merchandise in a
'Afisty OI ways, and some own a few
.sf"OI land. The property holders Of
hseolntry are an immense mass OF peo.
pc, and their property is 80 varied both
lnsItent and nature that Il would take q
huge volume 10 even enumerate Il. The
'stn'iOriiy Olthis immense number oi
people Inherited little or nothing Of what
'AsT own to-day. They worked for it
!ot 9, it by industry and economy.
nAeA work was plenty and wages
!'od they saved money. They
SOt!ed The great rule laid dowr
F." franklin, the poor mans friend
all countries, viz: TO spend each day
" Psun! less than they earned. In Thu
,i' thousands and tens Of thousands o
ro'' " Who own property throughout th'
1a''sd States today acquired the It'll,
" q much that they can lay claim to.
lhs point Of this statement Of vel
liet' lies simply in the very obvi
sSiau'hlhat the ownership Of propert,
"Gs country, is not, a, in Europe, th,
Eiu'se Ol the few, but the privilege o
S1stlIl0n'. Health, industry and self
~ '' put it in the power OF every mau
~ ,'I''O' foreigner, in the United States
Wy SSaPtOPerIy holder in some way. I
"S' llaIs of every such man II at th
u. s'a ''Ai' working days he ia not at lea,
N,Usntt Of a comfortable home.
'a' 0s'ng The case, how can we hayI
'. W q american soil any such organization
G,Ouaual'Iic SocietiesH What hav,
"s'a'Ai' ''I, land Of free aud equal law
,,S,! .u Institutions to do with plunder or
s... ssa',''ion'' Here the poor man OF to
~. @ " 'asrich man Of tomorrow. Th
y '.a' 0' POOR foreigners Gil our store,
,Ies' and factories as employees, and i
;.' ;a''!eAt' they, in common with Amer
'saa youth, are partners In these depart
s Isal' Of trade, and are jus. as likely, i
~ 4 more so, to die rich men as tho.
'IS Z, we're born to an inheritance.
GPon what wider and more liberu
DSS o...'.t than this system Of boundle.a or
So's p,.saa''le' :, in liIscan society rest. Sup
,,.,.. rS'e II Nn torn down what sort Of
I,'' S''t@ could be reared in It's stead : Ono
T'a'tT Ta'. organizations are started in Ii
i,il:a i,i,,, SsA'ea with any hope Of succs.
"uiia'i0u is at an end, and .Ocie,y