St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-04-27
IN. .. Oelnucrat.f

The speech OF President Megy, of the
New York Communists, has betn puU-
| llsiieu IN pa;nphiet IOrE and scattered
through New York city. Ol Megy hlm-
self II need only Ue said that he mur-
..eled Archbishop DAru,,y at Paris du-
ring the reign OIL Tile Commune; that
ne Is the murderer uf SIX other pers,,us
and has been three TIMES seutenceu tu
death,
Ills address is Il history of the out
break III Paris i'll 1871, Il review uf Com
inunlsm *. neraiiy aui ii review of tile
probabilities auI possibilities of d de-
velopnent ul Cuuiinuulsn in the United
States, After u tuil consideration Oi
the situation here Mcgy comes to tile
cOueiuolOu that Il cUilununlsJlc revulu-
tlUn I'D tnls cuuntry Is HOT only Possible,
tut certain. There CAN Ue no periiaileut
peace and quiet here, ne predicts, until
every PERSON Is couteuLeu, gets all he
wants; until, III tine, the entire social
and industrial cOndlliun of the country
Is cititDged 50 that all will become pro-
ducers and no Que Will live Oh Ills capi-
tai aud the labor Ut others.
Instead of this being the case, the
country is moving forward in exactly
the opposite direction. The great ct,ul-
talisls are growing RICHER; tile pOuiel
classes poorer. The wOrkingmen are
seeking to remedy the condition ot affairs
10y resurting To the balluC-bux, and are
organizing politically. Here, according
to Megy, Is Ciielr great mistake. They
can newer accu4lpllslt anything by bal
luts, because Ill IL country like this, de-
voted more to agriculture than To manu-
tact ures, the wOrkingllien must always
he III Il minority. Their only hope is
revOlutlOu, and here the Inpasslune,i
Ulatur QUOTES d famous declaration OF
his hero, Dlau4nl, now a CONVICT at New
Caleslun'a; "Het lead aud you'll get
Urcau,"
"Ite wOrkingmen vf Pittsburg," he
continues, "pruved recently that the
people every where stood on the plat
FORM ut the right to live, and that the
idea OF tue great social revolution has
beep implanted uu American sul. Now
lei TIE peuple do their duty"
10 us vi the South these threats
sonnd wild, absurd aud Impossible.
W li.tt terrible blows must r.publican-
istu have received III this country wht,,
>ucii Ideas as these are openly pyeacIes,
aud iuu.tiy applaaded! The New YORK
w urld, iiuweter, after reviewing the
situation is lucilpelt tu til:,k con-
tnuue ~ thai clty far trnM lHps,ssIhle.
ihefe are 0r euulse but few peisUn>
VINO 30 to the extremity that Megy adj
vucutes, tut with t large CRIMINAL riass
10 back theni, aud Il still larger class
Ut Weil-tneaning but Weak people wiu,
sympathlze with labor in its fight
agalust capital, and who would give it
Negative II not emphatic support iu an
outbreak, it thinks that Plltslurg .,
Paris might be eas,ly Reproduced iu the
gfeatsest city III this cuuutry.
The plH'sreAtluns of the Paris COM
,nunists silow THAT the COMMUNISTS
proper of that city, those agitators wlu
t'rOugnf Oh the outbreak, were com
paratlstiy lew III numbers; hut they
We're bold, mad, desperate faliatics, and
won to their ranks thousands Of fol-
lowers who had nu particular opinions
or ideas of tlieir own, The tine, tt,C
was farurdble rt,e such an outbreak
A few Insignificant demonstrations
were made 10y the Communists; the adj
nlinlsIration wis tiulid, refused to in.
terteTe, at first, ullt.l tIlt. movement had
gone sd far that interference was ip,.
ps,ssibie /; in a lew days it was an ont.
break, then a revolution, finally de-.
structive civil war.
The lesson of Pittshurg taught nj
that such an outbreak ~ uccurYd q,
Parts was pa!lsslhis. IN this country :; buj
it was confidently asserted that tn.
success. ut the mob at Pittsburg was
due only to the snddenness of the ont.
break, which prevented any action he
ing taken by the authorities t., prevent
It,. The cOmmunistic movement now
going ON in San Francisco, and hecO,n.
ing more dangerous and threatenins
every day, shows, on the other hand
that even when the authorities MP,
given months anil months for prenara
tion they can make but little head wa,
against auctl a mnvement.
Altogether, the alternatives Offered
by Megy and his friends are mot at al
pleasant. The government must i,
handed over bodily to the workingmen-
whoever these lle-or revolution mus
come, Mob rule or revolution Megy
offers Us. Which shall it be?
Matt Wells ia going To sue the New