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

reaching their destination. A. Is. WILLIAMS.
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CoMMUNIsM.-The rumors of communisie
, movements in tho United states, which we have
been hearing for some weeks past, are very
largely mngnifcd by the scnsatonalism of news
mongers. Wherever n body Of workmen use
rashnnd vehement language they are at once
tclegraphed over the continent Communists.
Indeed, the name begins to play the same part
ia our current controversies that the name
"Familist' did in the theological controversies
of the Puritan period. Whenever you did not
like man, and did not exactly understand what
he would he at, You disposed Of him by saying
he Familist. So our hard money people
stigmatized all their opponents, including the
National party, as Communists and the Nation
passed tho name to the ProtcctiOnists and
those who sympatize with capitalists afix it to
trades-unions and workingmens parties and
the National party in Indiana affx it to capital
lists and banks. The consequence of this loose
talk is not merely to breed confusion in the
minds of those who indulge in il, but to tend to
produce panic, both needless and in the high
est degree mischicvous in the mind of the pub
lie. Such panics are the necessary previous con-
dition of those temporary submissions of the
majority to the minority which in Europe are
called revolutions. They should be impossible
in this country, where every citizen is accus-
toned to. insist that all social and political ac-
ton shall flow in the ample channels provided
by our laws
OF course there arc Communists in The United
States many Of them. They arc most numcr-
ons in those quarters in which great bodies Of
forcign-born workmen arc suffering under hare
times, and arc refreshing their memories as TO
the wild theories sown broadcast over Europe iu
1918. But the temporary unrest and dissatis-
faction produced by hard times is not i'm any
large measure communistic in its character; it
has not become cnmity to society and its insti-
tutions, and it would vanish in n month if wa
nj
there arise any danger to our country from
Communism, or even from he more violent typCS
of discomfort which are not such. The upris-
ing of the havonos against European govern
mept is like the rush of mob against the AL
lcghauies-and it is not the Allephanics that
would be hnrt.-Pem Monhlp.
JUDGE WnLiAM III. WALLACE.--Thc present
visit of Judge Wallace to Barnwcll is, we be-
leve, the first he ever paid 10 this county, but
lie ~ no stranger to our people for the sIlendid
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 brigade commander was without
fear or reproach. In the sad DAYS Of radical
misrulc, as n member of the General Assembly.
he was n watchful guar dian of the libe,ti oe
our people, and by his patience courage and
fairness became an acknowledged power in the
republican Legislature; but in tho dark hours
just before tire day dawn-during the "dcad
lock- in the State House in December, 1876. he
''llusratcd' South arolina in q manner worthy
of her most illustriOus sons Of the ollen time
1--WE who with WALLACE watched can never for
get the bravery, patience, wisdom and tender
ness with which hc 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 ho loves so well, and
when his liics work is done they may well in
scribe as his memorial, "The noblest Roman
of them all.'-Thc People,
A NEwBERRY QUEEN.-AIss Carrie Auphtrv.
OF this County, pupil of the Columbia Female
College. was crowned queen Of the fc,c in Co.
inmbia Friday night. The fTe was COTTON up to
raise money for the Confederate Soldiers Monu-
mcnt All who wished to vote fora Queen could
do so by paying 10 cents n vote The vetcs
themselves realized Sll5. and quite n handsome
sum was raised in other ways for the MONUMENT;
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