The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-22
RADHcALrsM AND COMMUNISM.

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RADICALIsM AND COMMUNISM.
Communism in its worst phases is the out
Wherever it has made its appearance in Eu-
ropean countries communism has been
preceded by intolerable expressions in the
name of law and order. Those in power
/ have played despot and tyrant and re-
| lying upon bayonets have not hesitated
4 TO disregard the rights and welfare of those
who were the victims of their imperious
I oppression. We challenge the record, every
line of which establishes the fact beyond a
peradventure. A careful analysis of the
history of the radical party since it came
into power will not fail to discover
! the fact that ii embodies all the
elements of tyranny and oppression,
with all the disregard OF law, order and the
/ rights of others that have distinguished COM
munism in its most Objectionable features.
Radicalism has always been opposed to law
and the restraints OF law. 1t began its
I cursed career by proclaiming that the con-
stitution of the country was League With
hell" and the flag of our country
was a Haunting lie." 1t attracted
to its camps and dens the most depraved in.
/ habitants of the slums, inoculated them with
the virus of its piratical plans and political
hates, nodded them into shapes as hideous
as its ideas of government and kept them
in readiness to commit such crimes as dare
devil consplrators might map out.
/ If patriots, in the name of law,
/ pointed out the anarchial tendencies of
their vile teachings, they proclaimed a
higher law" which was No law at all, and
/ plunged into still greater excuses of crime.
! This infamous course suited the fanatics,
/ whose passions were continually famed to
a white heat and kept in a condition that
responded to every advance in opposition
! to order. There is not an inch of ground
/ over which the radical party has passed
since it had an existence that is not marked
/ by some curse. 1t was born full fanged
with rattles and venom. There is nothing
sacred that it has not attacked, and nothing
of good report it has not debauched. As it
advanced in power it battered down constitu
4 tons, overturned states, set at defiance law,
stigmatized liberty, and trampled under its
! vile hoofs the ballot box, and spit its nosome
saliver in the faces of the people.
! In all of these things it played the role of
! the most advanced aud the most infamous
communist. 1t liked power because it gave
security to pludering, and with the bayonet
in one hand il robbed with the other, until
the resources of the country could hardly
] Zoo TO fla do 10.
/ With the Inauguration of Grant, radicalism
achieved unlimited power. 1t was abso-
! lutely supreme, and then the food
gates OF corruption were thrown wide open
and ten thousand streams of corruption
flowed out from Washington to the remotest
parts of civilization. Stealing was univer-
sal; fraud was everywhere; forgeries multi
piled and periuries passed current in all of
the departments of the government. Grant
battered Office for such things as pleased
him, ranging from bull pup to man.
sion. His private secretary aided
whisky thieves; Boss Shepherd robbed
Washington; Belknap plundered the SOL
diers; Williams used the law to increase his
incomes; Delano debauched the interior
department, while Robson divided with
sham contractors. Traps were set for the
poor negro who was robbed of his little say.
ings in the name of fraternity, while an
army of carpet bag pirates robbed the south.
In all the history of communism there is no
such showing of fraud and robbery. But this
is not all nor the worst of the communism
of the radical party. Having possession of
congress it made laws expressly designed to
rob the people Of their earnings, and this it
has done in the interest of Shylocks to
the extent of many billions Of
money; to an extent Indeed, that
has bankrupted the people, hushed the In
dustries of the country and filed the land
with idleness and poverty. The blighting
curses forced upon the country by the rad
ical party are still sending their cancerous
fingers down deeper into the vitals of bust
ness, and God only knows when the devilish
work is to cease. The spring has come,
the crops are growing, summer is near
at hand autumn with its golden harvests will
not be long delayed. But there is no revival
of business. no work for the idle, no wages
and no food. Such is radicalism and such
are the curses of radical communism. The
only hope of the country is the democratic
party. II ii can not resue power from the
grasp OF radicalism the people must antici-
pate still darker days.