Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-10-10

because our institutions are school
ing them, and partly because they
have more common sense than they
have had the credit Of, bnt also be-
cause their Church has denounced
the agitators.
/ Ofstrictly indigenous Communism
there is very little among us; and
there would have been still less bul
for the unparalleled industrial paral.
ysis of the last Ave years. 1t is oul
of place here. 1t suits neither our
blood nor our geography. The leu
tonic instinct Of individualsm, which
with other things may be relied upon
to carry Germany safely through
the impending crisis in her history
belongs also to US Is an essentially
Teutonio people, and with othe,
things may be relied upon to save
US also from the crushing despotism
of this new social democracy.
How Russia shall deal with be,
Communism is a Russian question
How Germany shall deal with hers
is a German question. How we
shall deal with ours is our question
which may have to be answered
sooner and more sharply than per-
haps we think. Red-handed Com
mnnism would stand no chance at
all here. We have in the United
States nearly three millions of land.
owners, firmly grasping the CONT.
nent. They will not be robbed OF
their acres they will not be fright,
ened into hiring mon they do not
need. Other shots may yet be
heard around the world besides those
fired by Massachusetts farmers at
Concord. Shots fired next time IN
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana, or ILL.,
inois. | will risk our farmers. No
French engineering could barracade
a prairie, no German bullets shoot
/ off the nations head. A
But Institutions that are not sub
verified may yet be rudely shaken, or
radically changed. La the last anal.
ysis it will be found that Caesar was
Rome's escape from Communism
The rich were being plundered by
the poor. They lifted up their voices
10 wild alarm, and the avenging ca
giles FASTENED across the Rubicon
History may easily be persuaded to
repeat her retrbutions..
Communism is in the air. Section
is poisoned against section, class
against class, interest against inter.
est. The poor West and South are
melted co despOil the richer East.
Farmer, manufacturer, and merchant
natural friends, are being told that
they are natural enemies. Long con-
tinued Commercial distress, instead
of being recognized as common cal.
amity in Europe as we'll as here, with
special reasons for it on our eide In
the great war that saved the Union,
is fierceIy denounced as the crime OF
a class Men or the tatives
of men that loaned their money to
the Government to carry on the war
that saved it, money loaned IN pa
triotic faith on condition it should
not be taxed, such men are stigma
tized as "bloated bond-holders" The
cutlery is infamous. No matter what
the amount may be, one billion or
two billions. No matter whether
the bonds are now here or 10 Europe.
| No matter in whose hands they are,
though Shylock holds them all. The
bonds speak for themselves. They
went for the saving of the Nations
life. The thought of taxing them
exemption from taxation written in
blood across their face, is dishon-
est thought, basely dishonest. "Bioat-
ed bond-hondersr" Demagogues are
supposed to know what they are
about. Nicknames just now are on
~ cheap substitutes for arguments
But by-and by they mean brickbats,
and paviDg-stones, and torches, and
fire brands, when the mob which
great cities always hold in solution n,
begins to blacken the pavement.
1t is no procession of peaceful in
dustries that see marching now.
Labor and Capital from opposing
camps are moving on towards each
other, to meet. hope and believe,
as Esau and Jacob met amid the
mountains of Gilead, to be recoucil-
ed but it may be to meet as Pom
pey and Caesar met at Pharsalle. j
confess | expect no Caesar. find
on our map no Rubicon. Bnt then
expect to sec this communistic
madness rebuked and ended, / shall
have to say, as many sad.eyed
Roman must have said nineteen hun
dred years ago II prefer civiliza-
ton to the Republic
Communism ~ simply the absorp
tion of the individual in the commun
ity, the citizen in the state. The in
dividual. as such. has no rights the
community has absorbed them ALL
What the community orders must
BIO done or endured. Not relations
only, but employments, must be de-
teimined by the State. The State
does all that individuals and corpor-
ations do now. Not only must ev-
eryboGy work but every body
must do just the amount of
work that the state shall set him to
do. The state owns all the land and
all the houses, all the railroads, and
factories and banks and vessels.
There is no more any private prop
erty or private business. Present
motives to industry and economy
will have ceased TO operate. The
citizen is nothing; the State is all ;
and in a republic, that all may be
barely a majority of one and that
one carried drunk to the polls. One
drunken voter may thus be master
Of us all 1t is monstrous doctfin g
but we have got something more to
do than howl it down. Ii is phil
osophy, and has got to be argued
down.
First Of all we ahould make it clear
to ourselves, and thus be prepared
to make it plain to others, that the
state is for the citizen not the citi-
zen for the state. Society is for the
individual, no. the individual for So
ciesy. Personality is august. / have