The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30
The CcMMUNjSTlc SCARE.

Many of the leading journals are
shaking with fear over the possibility
of an uprising among the idle laborlng
men of the country. This appre-
hension on the part OF the press is
natural enough. No class of men
know better than these journals do,
the just cause labor has to be dis
Jsatisfied. No class of men have done
so much to bring about the present
deplorable condition of labor as the
press of the old political parties.
When the money power commenced
it's raid upon labor. by destroying its
principle tool,-the currency; these
partisan papers held public sentiment
in allowance, either by withholding
the facts, or lulling the public mind
to rest by the jingle Of coin, and their
sophisms of specie payment. Through
the aid of these papers, millions of
laboring men have been thrown out
of employment, and sent trampins
through the land in search OF suS-
tenance, while their wives and little
ones are eking out lives of misery and
shame, or subsisting upon the crumbs
and slop Of IA cold public charity. To
this army of lawdoomed outcasts.
thousands are being added daily.
Those who have not yet been driven
into this army of Deggars--see that
unless something is speedily done to
set back the tide of woe which is sui
lenlv rolling over the land. they too
must be swept beneth its angry Hood.
They know that they are not to blame
for this condition of things. They
know that the resources of this
country, and the powers OF this gov
eminent are ample and abundant to
supply every child of God with the
luxury of competency. They know
they are the victims of legaliZed rob
berry and criminal legislation.
They know this criminal legislation
was enacted to aid an idle. untaXed
aristocracy, to live in luxury at the
expense of toiling tax payers. The
serpent is not to blame for striking
the heel that attempts to crush it..
Self defense is the first law of nature.
1t is Il disposition. and duty fixed
by the Creator in the nature of every
creature.
These millions of suffering. starving
laborers feel and appreciate the fact
that each and every one of them has
as good Il right to live. and partake OF
Gods generous gifts to man. rs the
idle millionaire whose Accommodations
are the results of labor toll.
They don't know how much further
this robbery is to be carried. or how
much lower they are to be crowded
in the scale of depreciation. but being
I free men, imbued with the spirit and
/ independence of American citizens,
/ thew deem it wise. noble. and pa
! triotic to be prepared for the worst,
and If the government becomes sub
versive of the ends for which it was
established. they propose to fall back
upon the right declared to be theirs
by the founders of that government
and alter or abolish it.
These public Journals may console
them selves with the burden OF the
responsibility for this condition OF
things. and if they would not reap the
whirlwind they have sown. let then
demand of Congress 10 let UP its gris
upon the throat of labor, and a. once
afford such measures of relief as viii
win back the great. bleeding. surgin-
crushed heart of industry. to the
loyal support OF peace and fraterna
brotherhood.