, 1879-08-17

COMMUNIST pIsoRGAN1ZERs
| It is perversion of language to speak Of
| t.American Communists" There is no body
| Of native-born people entitled to any such
designation. 1Ihe Communists, or Socialists,
and all others in this country affiliating with
them in their aims, purposes, and designs,
are not Americans, and have no sympathy
| with, respect for, or attachment to, American
laws, institutions, or government. They
have no Intelligent understanding Of what q
| Republican government is or ought to be;
| they are Ignorant Of any rational principle Of
| liberty; they respect nothing but physical
force, and they demand that this force shall
| be employed by themselves. They are aliens
| in thought, word, feeling, principle, and even
| in language. They are loud-mouthed in pro-
/ claimin e a universal brotherhood, and are as
deficient in patriotism as if such principle
| was unknown among men. They have come
| to this country, not moved by any hatred Of
| the Government Of their native country, nor
inspired by any love Of American institutions,
| but by the hope and prospect OF being bet
ter able here to live,-that is, eat, drink,
especia11y drink, and be clothed and housed,
with less labor than where they came from.
| Unlike multitudes Of persons who have come
hither from other lands, who hive brought
| with them honest hearts, love Of rational
| freedom, hopeful ambition for themselves and
families, strong arms, and industrious habits,
thereby adding to the Vigor and wealth Of
the country,-these people have brought with
them the pauper theory that they have
right to be supported by the Government,
and to establish that idiotic idea as policy
| of government they devote themselves by
day and by night, with plentiful supply Of
"beer for the Committee"
We have during the last week been pub
fishing extracts from the recently published
reports Of the American Ccnsu!ates az to the
condition Of the working Glasses in the various
Kingdoms Of Europe. These reports give
striking picture of the distress Of this class,
especially in Germany This class includes
the WON en and children,-all Of whom toll
necessarily, satisfied if BY the joint efforts of
husband, wife, and children they can obtain
the means to pay for wretched lodgings and
sufficiency Of black bread, cabbage, and
potatoes, without meat. to sustain animal
life. The surroundings Of these millions Of
people are as pitiable as are their food, their
lodging, and their clothing. Nothing but in
cessant toll enables them to support exist
ence, an existence which in Chicago would
hardly be considered as better than starva-
ton.
This is the condition Of things which these
Communists, Socialists, and afiliating aliens
have left behind them. They have left the
black bread, cabbage, and potatoes Of their
native land, the wooden Shoes, the ca}f-skin
vests, the leather breechos lasting through
lifetime, the coarse cloth, hard to be OBJ
tained,-the daily meals, week after week*
with scarcely the favor Of meat,-all these
things these people have left behind. In
this country, whose institutions they despise,
surrounded with an abundance and COM
paratiye luxury 10 which they had in their
own country always been strangers, these
Socialists and labor combinations set them-
solves up to rovolutionize the political, in
dustrial, and religious institutions. No alien
or foreigner can complain OF dlscrlm-
ination by our laws or institutions against
persons of foreign birth. We havo thrown
the doors wide open to them. The whole
public land has been free to them to occupy,
to cultivate, and to own, without cost. They
have been admitted without discrimination
to every political privilege and right which
any native citizens might claim. Their
latitudinarianism has been respected; their
irreligious principles have been protected;
free schools have been provided for their
children; oil public charities have been open
to them. But they ara not content They
refuse to occupy free land; they do not set
I'D in business for themselves, but denounce
those who furnish them work and wages,-
double the wages they ever earned in their
own country,-and' cry "Down with the
wages system, and up with the Government
paternal- souphouse- pauper-Soclalistic sys-
tem," and down with American institutions
and personal Individuality.
The burden Of these peoples harangues Is
the oppression" ths "sla7ery," the
'sdegradation," the ''severe labor" the
'swant of time for recreation and intel
lectual improvement" by the aliens IN
America The answer to all this is furnished
BY the reports of the condition Of labor in al
parts of the world These establish:
l. That the cost of all the necessaries OF
Ife-food, fuel, clothing, and lodglng-ls
much less in this country than in any coun-
try in. Europe.
2. That wages, or the earnings OF labor,
are double those of France. England, Scot
land, Belgium, and Denmark; three times as
great as in Germany, Spain, and Italy; and
perhaps four times as great IS in Bohemia
and Poland.
8. That in the United States the workman,
as rule, is under no obligation to compel
his wife and children to labor, which Is uni
versally the case in Germany, Bohemia, and
Poland.
4. That thereduced cost Of bread and meat,