The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-24
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1QlB country CduuOb dAOE0 " al-
low communism to rise its head or
get q foothoId anywhere. Com
is as tyrannical as tyranny
itself. 1t is destructive of personal
effort and personal liberty. When
ever a government gets so man
cannot manage his own affairs IN
his own way, but must be governed
by a commune, then liberty is gone.
But we have no fears from this evil
in this country. 1t simply comes
up somewhat prominently now be-
cause of the popular feeling in favor
of righting long existing wrongs.
Glass privileges, especially for cor
poration, is a deep-rOoted evil.
Capital has, in thousands of instan-
ces, entrenched itself behind the
privileges of class legislation. In 8
population of 100000 people,
matters are so arranged. by q long
series of dishonest practices, per-
menating and influencing every
branch of government, that 1 ,OOO, 900
people have in large measuse con-
trolled the country, and especially
in it's commerce and finances.
Gigantic schemes of gambling have
been carried on, 80 that the monied
intererts and large share of the
POLITICAL power of the country haYe
conferred around one city, and have
been controlled by a handful of cor
rupt men. All this is at war with
our institutions, and must be and is
being broken up. But this general
tearing up of the old systems does
not mean Communism. The crazy
commune orators mistake If they
think so. The gamblers, who feel
uncomfortable at the idea of losing
their class privileges and their
power, mistake if they think so.
The country is undergoing import
ant changes, political and social. Old
things will pass away and all things
become new. We believe the peo-
pie are sound, and that the right
way will be pointed out and
adopted. The people are not in
favor of disorder, and lOng-haired
reformers, melted by desperate and
devilish revolutionary many of them
from the hot-beds of crime in the
old world, will, at the proper time,
be assigned to the fate reserved for
all such loafers. The doctrine of
earning bread by the sweat OF the
brow is as forcible now as ever, and
mankind will utterly fail even to
find any other way, and when he
has earned this bread he must be
LETT to enjoy the fruits of his labor
without the interference of COM
munlsts or the payment of fittings
to a system of robberies committed
in the name of commerce.
We adopt the following forcible
paragraph, on this subject, from the
st. Louis journal
"The hopelessness of communism
in America is in the fact that very
large majority of the people are pro-
pertY owners, and in that sense
capitalists. They own their own
farms, houses, shops, manufactures,
and so on, and feel abundantly able
to manage them without the super
vision of the government. More
over, this property represents their
own labor with head and hand, and
the investments of their own earn
ins and savings. In a society so
constituted the proposition to trans
fer all property to the government
or cause it to be seized by the
government to be distributed among
the people can never take root. The
fight in the country is not between
property owners and comm unism,
but between all men who labor,
whether they are owners of pro-
perty or not, and legalized mOnopo-
lies that by corrupt practices have
obtained privileges not enjoyed by
individual citizens. This fight will
be bought out and the people will
win. But such q fight has nothing
in common with communism"