Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-05-20

paid as interest on these debts flow from
the limited resources Of the industrians.
who will also, as it falls due, be obliged
to settle the principal OF these fraudu-
lently-incurred liabilities. Because the
moneys paid to meet the principal and in
terest of these debts are obtained by tax
ing the property Of the comparatively
wealthy, industrians might be led to sup
pose that they themselves are not
ultimately the class who provide the
means for delraying these obligations.
They do pay it, however, in the additional
rent charged by landlords TO cover their
taxes, in lessened wages paid by employ
ers who occupy taxed property, and in the
higher prices charged for goods and com.
modities by the merchants and traders
who are liable for the taxes.
Will any one, can any one conscicnti-
ouSly deny thatlth state is here responsible
for the enormous sums thus annually
filched from the industrial classes, to meet
debts contracted without their knowledge,
without their ability to prevent and for
the benefit of none save set Of disrepu.
table political sharpersP And being thus
responsible, is not the state in duty bound
to protect the industrial classes from the
evil consequences due to the acts Of its
own INSCRIPTIONS officials over whom the
industrian' can exercise no authority?
Again: The state encourages the I'M
migration from abroad, Of ill-paid, down.
trodden industrians, who bring with
their extreme aostemiOusness painful
economies, and semi barbarous surround
ings; all wholly alien to the lives led by
our own people, but which enables these
immigrants TO sustain their low-grade
civilizations on means that would bring
starvation and equalor to the households
of American mdustrians. To compete
successfully with this foreign clement,
our industrial classes must descend from
the pedestal to which they have been
elevated by much higher civilization;
must wallow in the slough and mire OF
ignorance and superstition; must resign
all clam to the manhood Of freemen, and
must become part and parcel, take seat
and lot with the intrudirg herd OF swinish
humanity.
He must be mentally stone blind indeed,
who fails to perceive that the state being
responsible for the influx of this obnoxious
element, it is in duty bound to protect our
industrians against injury thereirOm; is
in duty bound to see to it that our people
are not thereby deprived Of the opportu
nifty to acquire the means to support the
civilizations to which the state has cle-
waited them.
To sum up:
/. Through causes over which our in
dustians have had no control, they have
been elevated to a mental and social con-
dition-otherwi5e civllization--which de.
mandF certain amount Of means to sus-
tain them therein.
2. They cannot be made Gmenable to
the law OF supply and demand, as applied
to merchandise and other property, with
out making them, to all intents and pur-
poses, chattel; without ignoring in them
the divinity OF their creation.
3. They are entitled, even under the
code of the rudest savages, TO protection
against the consequences arising from the
indiscretions, guilt and noYious presence
of Others. They are not, because OF their
dcfanseless position, to be fguratively
crucf9d as an a'oncmcnt for the errors,
crimes ard debasements Of those over
whom they have no control, and for whose
presence The state is alone responsible.