Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-05-03

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countries in Chicago, 1000 Of whom
are armed aud are acquiring military
This is not 4 very pleas
ing piece Of intelligence for the mass
OF people who believe in law and order
Who have heard OF the terrors OF the
French Commune. Nevertheless, up
on more mature reflection, there is
little tn cause alarm III the ahnouaeo-
meui, shpposing it to he true. The !
mass OF the people OF this country ur-
lieye in law and order, and MT Only /
yield willing obedience to recoguizJd
authority, but will promptly support
that authority. The body polite is
not yet sufficiently poisoned with the
heresies of the Commune to extend
any favor or support to an organiza-
tiOn called into existence to oppose
the laws OF tie land and defy consa-
tUted authority. Movements like
that in Chicago can be strangled by
the iron grip ofauthorily. The exiles
OF the French Commune who recently
celebrated Good Friday" in New
York by banquet at which the most
disgusting obscenities and shocking
blasphemies were uttered, will render
their creed so forbidding that no decent
person can listen to 1t.
Communism may be said to be the
creed ofspollation. Under the guise
Of the proclamation Of equal rights for
all men, 1t proposes to equitably di-
vide among the masses the accumula-
tons ofthe industrious and the iortu-
nate. 1t is, therefore, but another
name for robbery. Whatever par
takes Of the nature of spoliation, OF
taking the property Of one class OF
citizens to enrich another, is in the
nature Of communism.
"The communism which is danger
Gus Is the tendency in the cities of this
country to ring rule, by which few
hundreds are enriched at the expense
of the many. Under the Tweed regi-
me New York city furnished an illus
tration of our point on u magnificent
scale. In most cities in the country
there has been more or less Oft. The
mass Of ignorant and vicious voters
which crowd into large cities, vote sol
idly with the ring masters. For SO
r doing they receive reward by being
allowed to break the laws with impu-
nifty, Scores share the plumber dcriv-
ed from thousands as taxes, and three
scores organize and vote the vicious
masses. This is form Of communism
which is dangerous.
f I'm this country the right to vote is
Of great value-sO valuable and sc
necessary to the security and well.
being Of communities and States thai
it should be most zealously guarded
f Lawmakers should spare no effort.
to hedge about the right of suffrage
f with every possible safeguard. Whel
it becomes ONO account, when people
, get to saying sit is no use to vote
! and There will never again be a fal
election" there is real cause for alarm
The ballot in the hands of the MAJ
entitled to it is protection, and in
y certain sense, property. When, b,
the commission Of frauds upon tn
f ballot either by the voting of thos
? who are not entitled to the privileg
or by repeating and ballot-boX stuff
| ing, the votes OF those entitled to suf
frage are rendered nugatory, and th
: voice Of the majority stihed, commu
e nism practically controls affairs
: When, by the conniyance Of election
: officers, those entitled to vote are de
= fraaded by false counting and returns
communism is already seated in tn
f place OF authority, and, by deprivin,
. those entitled to the ballot Of it
? count and voice, rob the many in th
i. interest OF the few. There is ALREADY
o an alarming danger. In some State
= Of the Union there are cities where
e is asserted by those who know tina
. there has not been an honest electio
n in many years.
e Another exhibition Of the spirit Q
communism is found in the GROWN,
:, tendency Of States and cities to repu
: . date theirjust obligations to creditor!
1t is none the less plunder,ng becaus
9 there is no law to enforce such con
+ tracts, and the influence is none til
q less pernicious because the fraud
9 perpetrated by lawmakers. Indeed
>, it gives an air Of responsibility to rol
;, berry.
e "These are a few of the communist
a tendencies which are dangerous, an
= which should be checked and rem,
9 died."