Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-07-18
What He Forgot.
Chicago Evening Journal.

1hic"hV HsohiHB SoHrn1i.
The leaders of the Socialistlc party
in the United States have been APP
pealed to by Citizen Schwab, of Now
York to raise fund for the support
of the families of the Communists
lying in the prisons of Germany,
awaiting trial and probable decapita-
ton, after the fate of Hoedel. In
bis appeal Citizen Schwab denounces
the German Emperor as tyrant,
and curses the public and tho social
determinations which have ground
the faces OF the poor people to whom
the fund Is to be forwarded. In
speaking these bitter words against q
country from which he has fed, how
narrow, short-sighted, unfair and un-
grateful it was in Citizen Schwab
not to institute in his mind and speak
from his mouth and heart the COM
PARSONS which naturally rise to the
glory of the government to which
he has fled, and in which is given
him liberty, protection, free-speech,
home, property and position.
Citizen Schwab forgot to say in
his appeal that this is a country
whose rulers are not hereditary, but
of the people, as history for the first
hundred years has proved-whose
rulers called Presidents, are of the
poor eople-Washingtons from the
farm Jacksons, born of poor immi.
grants Lincolns, from backwoods
huts; Johnsons, from the tallor's
bench, and Grants from the leather
factories. These thoughts, Citizen
Schwab, the agitator, grumbIer and
bowling communist, forgot to i'm.
press on his brother lunatics, in his
descriptions on the ills borne by
their brethren in foreign land and
under bard handed monarchy,
Where one man is a capitalist by
inheriterce in the United State Fl We
thousand are Capitalists by self-ex-
ertion and toll. Citizen Sohwab for.
got to say this.
The Offices Of trnst, in public, COR
porate and private life in the United
States, are held, almost without ex-
ception, by mon who have come up
from the lowest grades in their line
OF business-senators, congressman,
Governors, Judges and government
officers, rising from pages, farmer
lads, printer boys. struggling stu.
dents and clerks; railway officers
from ticket agents, bookkeepers, bag
gage masters, check boys and brake
men keepers of private trusts from
faithful assistants and servants. Cit.
izen Schwab forgot TO refer to any
Of these things.
The United States, an asylum for
poor of all lands, is become a country
Of great business structures, magnifi-
cent manufactures and luxuTious
homes, all controlled and owned by
self-made men. Its millionaires shake
hands with tho industrious Young
man and say to him. eve too were
once whore you are - its statesmen
say, "Climb Oh, there's plenty of
room up higher, and we like you
have lowered on the lower round"
And its bonanza kings can say to the
man with the space, Digging does
it /; we know for we've been there"
Citizen Schwab forgot these facts.
Was there ever country whore
all honest men lived SO little oppress-
ed, SO thoroughly unmolested. so
privileged to aspire to every high
position, so equal under the law, so
honored by society? And yet Citi.
izen Schwab, of New York, and
Draymen Kearney, of California. are
here, in this refuge striving to stir mp
strife, racking and wrecking their
feeble intellects in endeavors to ma
terialize shadows from imaginary
evils and phantoms from airy moth.
ingness. ..
We can only say of such men and
their followers that they should be
ashamed of themselves and to Thorn
that if they do not like the institu-
tons hero they can return to the
countries whore all such chaps as
themselves are kept chained in pris-
on, awaiting Punishment, the guillo-
tine or the hangmar's rope.
And let thom not forget it.