The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-09-11

les, preparing to fight what they SEQ a
lis the devil' with fire, and are inaug- 81
rating "hydra-headed parties which t.
will utterly destroy the old land marks tt
# persons and things. Socialism, or p
he labor party; greenbackism, or the y
National party, and communism pro- n
Jer, are the three horns of that hydra d
headed monster-the Agrarian Red c
sceptre of Europe which has and is
Just now haunting more people than
ours. Now, as the two old and great
parties have failed, lead by talents of |
a very high order, it remains for time t
or reason to show whether the three
new ones marshallingto the front with
Butler, Kearney and Schawb at their
head, will trace out the cause from eff
feet and apply the remedy. Time has
not spoken yet, but reason, looking
from standpoint where truth may be
seen, bids US beware.
The Socialists are the dissatisfied
employees and artisans who, having
employment at wages too small to
meet the needs of self and family, are
looking, not toward the enormous la
Dor supply that is in competition with
them, and the lessening demand, but
are attributing their grievances to, not
idle labor, but idle capital and labor
saving machinery of their own order,
and see complete and entire remedy
which is to bring to them prosperous
times by its destruction; proposing to
run business in partnership on othe!
mems capital they say and believe,
perhaps, that they would be able to
dictate their own terms for employ
| ment. and that all the industries of the
world must go on, make or break, for
getting that if such destruction should
commence that it embraces machinery
i of every class, and that without some
kind of machinery nothing can be done
even the soil titled without aid of
some sort, could not produce his own
subsistence, much less the surplus that
must be made to meet the wants of the
, world, if it should go on cas- 1t is."-
Birst comes bread, Tin general sense)
the prime necessity of lite that makes
all other things important, and it is
3 the hoe, pillow and such others we have
now that makes any surplus at all for
the nom producers that do their share
in the economy of life and give us lei
J, sure to acquire other needs
: in their order. After bread comes
!. clothes, towns, cities, manufactures
!, trade, commerce, ships, railroads, arts
Il sciences and bellies lettres, aud that
s those who work at these cannot follow
s the pillow. There might be a point il
such destruction where prudence woult
- bid them stop; but SO far from sparn:
" any now in use necessity is calling TO
IT still more ;-as instance the fact tina
1t Ohio was not last year able, with al
9 her labor saving machinery and all he
~ multitudinous laborcrs, to harvest he
crops. How, then, must it be if the
g. should carry out their present threat
m The warning has been given in the fac
ID of that to lay aside the reaping ma
=. chimes, rakers, threshers, etc, whic
=, proves blindness and malice not to b
:" trusted-"for the remedy"
rs The Greenback party are the dissa1
c. isfied business men, who seeing trad
ne declining, prices failing, ruin comm
re and in debt, must pay-must pay!
very laudable desire for business me-
I must say, and to a certain extel
OF commendable in others. They 81
es luin coming, directly from want
err ready rhino, proposing the infallab
81 remedy of increased circulation, NAL
u ing it good and safe by enactment
er giving it purchasing power by la'
es, losing sight of the fact that the pr
ne sent money is good enough if the pc
as pie had employment to get it. Ma
ing billions of money would not pr
M .lnce one bale of cotton more or n ba
- rel of -four, and that bread is the II
ed cessary standard of all values, contr
~ nv to the so.called finances notwit
W standing. and that money is worth il
10 what it will bug, and can buy it VIII
of it is to be had at all. Cheap mon
= may be made to pay debts aud sw
-, prices, never values. Now, a pock
" full of greenbacks easily got and ca
49, to get may make richer feelings thai
US nickel that is slowly earned, yet if
hat nickel would buy a loaf and all
+ q greenbacks would buy no more, til
tile intrinsic value of either was jus
u" loaf, enactments to the contrary n
ielr withstanding. History and memo
av- both are full of such instances, e,
rom where tile government enacted val
to them was sustained. Besides t
ok would create q circulation that wo
for be as fatal to production as the d
the truction of machinery-for he who
Ia pocketful would not be as liable
work as he who had but nickel t
ugh was hard to earn, even though Il
e. values should be precisely the sam
stry for plainly, if it is easily gotten
rch. one would depend on easy ways of
% tanning it, which / must say COY
. u nat the lines of production. No rel
aVes dy in just greenbacks, but the Tin
ing, eier, so called, seeing the outer sto
,lat who like snail is drawing his belo
. - ings around him, would like to CO
= ~ better dollar, and explains to
der friends, the gutter snipes, that i
rren had or could get dollar with
,ugh grains of silver in it, that it woult
,ble: good for all ills, from the want
aud clean shirt to the death rattles,
8 to too, forgetting that dollar the siz
cart, a cart wheel would be freely given
hing loaf of bread if not to be had
the smaller change, and that at sue
Id is juncture that he, too, Wou,d cease
one, twaddle about standard values u
ulti- or grains OF silver, ana oehu 'he
enty ges OF his tnanciai ihteilec., nv
ward Che grains of silver in the dollar
tL,t tbo Grains of wheat in the leaf. s