The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-06-20

Those papers which have been ridicuing the
reports of the intentions of the Communists, and
endeavoring to lnll the fears Of the people, are
destined soon, il signs indicate anything, to dis
eever their mistake. These signs prevail every
where throughout the land. The burning of Ia
Dor saving machines on farms is ono phase of it.
We have it here in Kansas; it 10 still worse in
Missouri; and on East il 10 still worse. Reports
from nearly every County in Ohio, are to the ef-
feet that farmers are receiving anonymous notes,
warning them that If they attempsto use self
binding machines (and in some cases even reap
ing. machines without binders) In their fields,
their barns, stacks and machines will be burned.
The railroad companies evidently have intelli-
gence of another coming strike. Many of the
local agents are being notified to not receive
grain for shipment. Preparations are said to
have been made for more general and extensive
strike than last Summer
This state of things is not the work Of laboring
men who are willing and anxious to work. 1t is
the doings of men who do not want to work, or
who want large wages for doing little. But
thousands of laboring men are being unwilling
ly drawn into it, and thus used to bring the
country to q condition that will be most runous
to labor. The drones and the improvident wish
to live on the fruits of the industrious and fru-
gal. These strikes and other lswless proceedings
will be most disastrous to the laborers, for it
will stop work and business everywhere through
out the land, and the working men will have to
starve resort to pillage 1t is to their interest,"
more than all others, to oppose and prevent these
proceedings.
1.s n, istsc cfrin nd
acts teach the important fact that all, employer
and employee, laborer and capitalist, farmer and
railroad man, are mutually dependent upon each
other. Anything that teuds to create jealousies
and antagonisms between classes, goes to build
up Communism in its worst form. When the farm
ers established Oranges and fostered hatred
of railroads and middle-men, they unconsciously
nurtured principle that is returning to plague
them, in the shape of the destruction Of their
machines and barns. They made war upon the
railroads as monopolies; now the tramp and the
Communist are taking revenge upon them as
monopolists. The men who are now running
wild IN denunciation of bankers and bondhold-
ers, will soon find class beneath them, to take
up the same cry against them. The men who
are trying to force the farmer to pay them 81
per day, when he cannot afford to pay 81. So have
just as much reason and right upon their side as
the men who are demanding $50 per capita, when
they do not earn 30 ce nts. 1t is principle that
works down through all classes. The old couplet
is as true of men as of insects:
big eas have little heas and lesser heas to bite EN-
And these feas have smaller feas and 30 ad fnitun."
This thing called Communism is foreign plant,
discovered about the time of the French Revo-
luton. Years ago, attempts were made to trans
plant it into American soil, but it it never met
with much success until within few years past.
It aims in other directions besides labor. Gov
ernment and religion are embraced in its fell
designs. The principle of mutual dependence,
spoken of above, applies to the Church with as
much force as to other institutions. The Church
cannot afford to indulge the intolerant spirit,
just now so perverse, which seeks to trample
down and sets its curse upon every one who can
not subscribe to all its beliefs although willing
to see the Church prosperous and secure; for
the time may not be far distant when the Church
will need the aid of those who not SO strictly
orthodox. The leading idea of Communism was
illustrated during the French Revolution and
again during the reign of the Commune, at the
close of the the late French and German war; (;
and it has been expressed by the man Nobelin &,
who recently attempted to assassinate the EN-
peror of Germany. 1t is short. and to the point !:
Germany isnothing the Emperor is nothing; man
kind and progress everything have abolished
God, and the people want no more Kings