The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-28
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The rule of rsdicalism has surely had its
day. All of its beauties have long since
faded away, and even its curses, it is now
sanguinely hoped, have spent their strength
of destruction upon the American people.
1t needs no argument to convince the
masses among the people that great wrongs
are affecting them. They feel them in their
store houses and in their barns. They
groan under them in their debts and mort
cages and impending bankruptcies They
stand aghast and wonder why it is that they
are crippled in trade, paralyzed IN business,
and driven to the wall as nation of bank
rupts, while 'llving under the best govern
'ment the light of the sun ever shone up
on" They know that once they were hap
py and prosperous, and that the wolf of
poverty was not always at their doors. They
remember the past. they see the present and
dread the future as they would coming
storm. rrr
The hour they see is dark one;. their
hearts are discouraged. They see no rain
bow in the sky, while muttering thunders
of threatening dangers furnish the only
where thousands of them are fastening I'M
der the most heart rending circumstances
of poverty and financial overthrow.
1t seems not to matter to the
government how many fall or how
many perish. The masses are not
looked after, are not cared for, only as the
fettered taxpayers Of the rich bondholders,
the all happy bankers, and for the support
and rule of radicalism. .. .-r.,.
The American people are no longer SOW
ereigns. They are only serfs. Tax them,
and they seem to take all such notices as q
display of official confidence IN their loyalty
and patriotism. Make ticket out for them
and call it republican, and they vote it all
straight, fully satisfied in doing SO that they
are supporting the very essence of God and
morality" Indeed, it has seemed that
nothing short OF death or revolution would
arouse the radical masses to a sense of the
fact that they are and have been, by their
voting. the main props of this whole de-
structive system of government We have
had nothing like it in our past history. We
have had panics, bankruptcies and general
failures, but never before anything like the
present financial maelstrom. Not only have
the brains OF the American people been up.
turned in horrid confusion but the whole
system of moral order has been demoralized
and rendered almost totally Intellectual, so
that our churches mourn over it, and our
most pious and conservative ministers begin
to see and feel the miserable state of affairs
which has been inaugurated, and
which must now be corrected
and fully revised, and something better
and truer instituted in the government of
the people If we would have a restoration of
our old time moral and civil prosperity.
The cry is o Lord, have mercy 1t comes
from the mouths and hearts of the million.
Like the vail of the sin-stricken, 1t goes up
to the Highest, that the evils of the day
may not be continued; that a rule Of mercy
may be again given us such as our fathers
inherited. We have had contraction in the
finances of the. government to the destruc-
tion of nearly all of our manufacturing and
commercial prosperity. We have had a
false issue aimed at for the sole benefit of
the rich, of coming to a gold basis in our
currency, which has KILLED the goose that
laid the golden egg" and left nine-tenths
Of the American people without another egg
or golden dollar.
The financial condition of the country
stands in the darkest contrast with the gifts
OF Providence in the products of the land.
for the people 90 about the streets unem-
ployed and unable to earn their daily bread,
crying, o Lord, how long must we suffer?
How long must we turn the grindstone Of