Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-27
DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUEs.

ton OF class prejudice 20 stirring
up strife between the rich and the
poor; who tries to array the latter
against the former, or viee versa, is
worse than a thief or q robber.
With strong bolts and bars we may
guard against the man who, in the
dead hour Of night, would deprive
us of our goods, or we may meet
force with force and defend our
selves against the attack of robs
Der, who, with pistol or bludgeon in
hand, commands US to stand and de-
liver. But, as yet, We have no
adequate protection against the Sc
ductive arts Of the eold-blooded,
calculating villain, who, under the
specious guise of love for the
masses, seeks to array one class
against another and invokes the
mad passions which caused the
streets of Paris to run with blood
during the French Revolution.
Occasionally during our history
the people of this country have been
brought to the very brink of the
stormy sea of Communism and
Socialism, but, happily for us, the
love for peace, law and order, has
always prevailed in the end. But
we very much fear that the happy
experience of the past will moi
always be the experience of the
future.
To the credit of Dennis Kearney
the sand-lot orator of California.
be it said, that by his presence and
GOODNESS and by wise words ftly
spoken, the city of San Fran
cisco was saved from a
calamity last week, which threatened
to end in blood and the destruction
of property beyond Imagination. A
word from his lips would hove
placed the city in the hands of al
Infatuated mob. Men would have
been shot by scores and the torch o
the incendiary would have accom-
plished effective work in the de
struction Of property.
While he deserves credit for re
STAINING the passions of his dupe
within reasonable bounds, and TO
preventing the shedding of blood
he can console himself by assuming
the credit which belongs to him, o
organizing a party that has for it
object the achievement Of success
by teaching the unthinking, the ur
reasonable, and, for the most part
the ignorant, that men who ow
property are their natural enemies
For months past this has been hi
daily business. Ignorant and IN
principled himself, endowed wit
a boldness and audacity which give
him prominence, he has been kind
ling a brute passion in the minds {
his followers, that is liable at an
moment to break out in a terribl
confagaration that will destroy til
happiness of any community wher
his pernicious influence has fool
holt. SCI
He and his kind gain the affet
tons Of his dupes by professin
great interest in their welfare. Blu
such men are selfish, unscrupulou
and unprincipled. They are th
yipers of society and their poiso
wherever it takes root is withor
antidote. AS vipers they should b
Stunned. They are robbers. The
not only rob the laboring man
his wages, but they rob his wife an
children of the g means
living. They rob them Of the
peace and happiness.T They SO
the stormy seeds Of communis
wherever they go-seed1 that vi
surely grow up and bring bount
full harvest of disorder, distress
sorrow, desolation and death. Dil
aster is bound to follow in the
footsteps. 3A-~ & =
Happily for our section, we ha'