The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-14
WEEKLY BAZOO.
SEDALIA, Mo-.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER IA, 1882.
A BOILING POT.

For the past few weeks the cable ha
told to the people Of this country of {
boiling pot io France which threaten
serious results. This pot is kept HES
ing and steaming ever . fire built BY
that wild, unprincipled and dangerous
class Of people called Socialists, com
posed of reckless linen and crack
Drained. fiery women. vino go about
from place TO r ace. stirring up strife
engenderjng hatred of their more pros
Pereus neighbors. and threatening and
even attempting to overthrow any and
oil forms of government. from the most
aespctic aut' cracy 10 that Of the broad.
est and most liberal republic.
Without principle, without con-
science. ignorant, jealous, full of NAL
ice. hatred and holy horror of honest
work, these creatures STAB in the dark
and strike in the rear at all that is sa-
cred, pure and good in government or
society.
Their proceedings partake solely of
the nature of a riot and their whole
existence is of an Ishmaalitish spirit.
Social scientists, with penehant for
the mysterious. deep and learned, have
pretended to have discovered a line
which separates the Socialist from the
Nihilist. but plain people fail to see
it. The outward and cyrstallized life
of these two orders are much the same
their objects seem to be very close in
kin.hip and their purposes have no
point of divergence.
Especially is this true of the two
orders i'm France and Russia. The
festive and moving dynamite is the
favori.e argument Of both, ard the
secretly planted bomb is called upon
to enforce their devilish doctrines.
As a standing menace to peace and
suietude, the even flow Of order and
security of government, these reckless
and riotous societies require prompt
and stringent measures to crush them
cut. True it is that liz Russia there
is some excuse for an uprising of the
masses against the oppressive laws of
the land, but no such excuse exists in
France, and certainly not in this coun-
try where they have made spasmodic
efforts at local disturbances. But there
is cause for everything and a writer of
force finds the cause Of French social
ism to be political pollution and social
disorder the Bourse speculations of
the deputies the shameless adventures
Of financial diplomatits; national
crimes like the Tunisian conquest the
obseenity and scurrility of journalism
the debased literature of lola, which |
lie made foul because foulness pays we'll
"a business principle adopted now
even by Daudet; fanatical hatred
not only of a state. paid clergy and of
religious establishments. but even of
religion itself-for even unbelief has
its frenzy of fanaticism a laxity in
divorce Legislation which is already
undermining parental infiuence-the
sole prop of French family life; a NOR
bid interest in hideous crimes and a
sentimentality in screening
the guilty from retributive justice;
ggi,teril.g reign OF sensuality and profit
gacy. There is lack of common de-
cencs in public life.
And vet the country is strangely
prosperous the revenue returns are
increasing steadily and the heaviest
national debt in the world is lightly
borne. With the cup Of material pros
perity trimming full, AID with sense
If security broken only by a vague
dread of the K ed Spectre, there is an
inter lack of conscience.
Such is the picture Of France of to-
aay. What it may be tomorrow none
can predict. A country that tolerates
! lola, or entertains at public dinner
, Fenayron, whose crime was as afro