The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-06-03

been stirred and dynasties overthrown.
There is not principle for which mar
tyrs ever died or heroes contended
that you do not enjoy. You are free
in your conscience. free in your per-
sons, free OF speech, with perfect free
dom OF action within the law. You are
not serfs TO lords, nor villeins to the
soil. You owe no military service to
feudal chieftains, nor are you drafted
TO the armies OF the State. You are
not subjected 10 exactions.
IL you cannot prosper in this coun-
try, il must be for one OF two causes;
either God has given you no sense, or
il is because you are idle and unenter-
prising. III God has not given you the
proper modicum OF brains, il is not
His fault, and not the fault OF the
American nation or its laws. III you
are idle and unenterprising, il is your
own fault. We did not create you and
we cannot re-create you.
III you do not like this country, then,
in the name OF heaven, why don't You
go back to that you came from? III
wages are inadequate here. return to
your peasant homes in Germany, where
go back to Belgium, where women
drag carts with dogs; go back to Ire
land, to France, TO Scandinavia, to the
plains OF Lombardy. where women
WELD the mattock; TO Portugal, where
women hold wooden plows, and where
you are liable 10 do military duty. Go
back and tell your countrymen and
countrywomen that in q land OF mex
haustible fertility, where farms were
free, where religion was honored, where
education was within the reach OF all,
where mines and forests and fisheries
we're open TO the world, where the law
protected all. and where you were
clothed with the sovereignty OF citizen
ship-that you could not make a liv-
ing. Go back and starve and die and
rot. Be cremated, be damned, be any
thing. and give us rest from this in
drinking, whisky-guzzling, pitch-seyen-
up politicians.
As Americans we are sick and tired
of il aud you; we are wearied Of your
whining mendicancy. We question
the fact that you can not get work -
We believe you do not try. IL no one
supplies you with labor, go and make
labor for yourselves. Land is plenty
and free; game is free in field and for
ests; fish abound in stream aud ocean;
the mines, the forests, the quarries,
the broad range Of pasture lands are
open TO your enterprise. Do as we did
who crossed the continent on foot and
mule back, toiled in the mines, baked
our own beans and cooked our own
slapjacks. Do as your fathers did,
who pioneered the western wilderness,
subduing savage beasts and nature, to
make the homes where We were born. -
Fish for clans and crabs upon the sea
shore; dig roots; live on acorns and
pine nuts; hire a SOW and raise pork;
but, for Gods sake, stop your whining.
The Digger Indians could live in Cali
fornia. Are you less enterprising?-
The early Californian could live
Have you less capacity? III everything
fails, and in this land Of broad oppor-
tunity you can not earn your living,
then go hang yourselves. Abraham's
bosom is never full.
Again, we are angry at the insolence
OF your political demands. You are
accustomed TO the argument OF kings,
and in your ignorance you are unfit to
be freemen. Therefore we ask the re-
spectacle, the prosperous, the content
ed, the reasonable OF your countrymen
TO unite with us, in order that we may
silence your clamor and relegate you to
your proper positions. Youl an igno-
rant mob OF unwashed foreigners, would
teach Americans their political duties.
You! a propertyless mass Of unskilled
laborers, who are too idle and too vi
cious TO earn your beer and whisky
you demand OF US a division Of our
and call ID communism. You
would overthrow our laws, and style il
hihilism. You would level all barriers
OF society, break down all distinctions
of class, and this is the sand.lot's idea
OF socialism. You would steal the
money you have not earned, and call it
You have the impudence
of bandits with the courage OF panel
thieves.
You claim TO want labor. The sand
lot is not the place TO find il. You
have the sense to know, and IL not the
sense, you have had the experience to
demonstrate, that your present. mode
OF angry agitation is making labor less,
and is reducing wages. Capital and
labor are mutually dependent upon
each other. II you intimidate capital,
il is timid and hides itself. While it
is hiding you are starving. Ii never
comes forth at threats. IL never cir
culates in times Of violence and dan
ger. Before this agitation commenced
you were prosperous. The real estate
associates built hundreds OF houses in
year. Since this agitation times have
been hard. Real estate values have de-
preciated, enterprise is arrested, and
you are the first to feel the blow n
there are no bricks laid, there is no
money for carrying the hod. As soon
as you cease agitating, confidence will
be restored. Money was never more
abundant. New enterprises will be in
augurated, new Industries stimulated.
Money will again circulate freely, and
you will get some. IL is your own fault
that this period Of stagnation has come
Ten years ago this was the happiest,
most hopeful, and most independent
community in the world. Everybody
was elastic aud buoyant; everybody
was industrious and economical and
nearly all had their own homes. You
gambled in stocks, went into politics.
lost your grip, gave way to the Chi
nese, began TO drink whisky aud beer,
and 10 play ''pitch seven-up" at the
corner groceries. Your bad example
made hoodlums Of your children, aud
now you meet on the sand-lot, bias
pheme God, and denounce the laws Of
the American republic because you
have reaped the consequences OF your
own crimes and follies, and because
you have been the contnvers OF your
own ruin.
Now, take the advice OF n sober.
minded mule-one who came early 10
the country, worked hard and ate this
ties. Abandon the leadership OF the
good-for- nothing. long-eared, leather
lunged, asinine prayers who have un-
dertaken 10 set themselves mp as teach
ers OF political economy. Abandon
politics aud go back TO honest labor
Stop drinking beer and whisky. Give
the corner groggery. pitch seven-up,
"cinch," "blue- Peter" cold sledgs'
and stocks wide berth. Give ear
again TO the sermons Of your priests,
the advice OF your wives aud the pray.
ers OF your children. Leave "lecherous
bond-holders" and "hell-born and hell.
bound rich" men alone till you cau
change places with them. Do not at