The Press., 1883-05-17
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[Hartford Times.l COMMUNISM.


 rybody but the Chinese. Herr Most, the German Communist, abuses the freedom he finds in the United States, by trying to stir up the thriftless and idle to bloodshed. This man lectured in Louisville last week, and also gave his views to a reporter of the Louisville Courier-J Journal He said Socialist was not the proper name for those who agreed with him in the division of property. Communists was better and more significant name. He found many Communists in the United States, and he had been listened to with attention and re- spect. He said Ireland was opposed by England-but what could Ireland do in open warfare against England. Her only resource was dynamite, terrible as was the remedy. He also shuddered at the thought, yet dynamite was the power to remove | England and relieve Ireland. He declared that one man had as good right to prop erty as another. The, soil and capital had no right to millions while many peo- pie had nothing. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, with his immense stores of goods, had no right to such vast stores, while others needed part of them It would require force Che added) to make the division, to equalize the land and cap- ital, and force, he declared, should be used. He said the revolution must come, and it would come within five years. It would bring great trouble and distress and loss of life, but 1t must come. He was not for destroying capital, but he said "Come on with your capital" It must be divided up evenly. This was communism.
 This is the substance of the mans preaching. It is not free speech-it is li- cense 1t is & plea for murder and pillage. Is this to be tolerated in a. free country which protects all in the lawful avocations of ife-where true skill and genius and industry are successful, and fair compe- tence comes to the meritorious ? A mil lion of men in this country, who were poor boys without dollar in the world when they became of age, have accumulated fal1 fortunes, and solely upon their merits. The same pathway is open to millions more A comparatively few, by freaks of fortune, become excessively wealthy. But where there is no law of entailment these colossal fortunes will soon be broken and scattered, and the poor boys of to-day will fairly get some of the parts. Industry and real merit have their rewards in this coun. try. The boys of poor parents of forme, generation are generally the most prosper ous of the active business men of to-day
 
 in this country. Commodore Vanderbilt was poor-ve7y poor in his youth. He was only sailor. He accumulated vas fortune, while the families that were ricl when he was poor, dwindled into poverty His fortune was so great that large parcels of it will decend through two or three fam flies. At the first descent it may grow but it will not be long time before it vii be divided into dozen or two dozen fam l flies, and the ceaseless revolutions of tn lwheel of fortune will wear 1t all away The children of poor boys and girls nov living will come into possession of share of it, and as fairly as Vanderbilt accumu lated it.
 Tact, talent, shrewdness, and industry have accumulated wealth. Herr Most pro poses to rouse up a revolution, make wa upon those who have by merit won homo and a fortune, overturn our free govern ment established to protect persons ant property, and divide up homes and prop erty among the idle, the dissipated, tn, thriftless, who would squander their shares in dissipation every year, and show signs O industry only in their annual raids and mur derous assaults upon the more prudent ant prevalent, to rob them of their property i, Of course no such scheme could be carried out, TOT It WoulQ plunSe lACo ulstress aue death those engaged in the work. l would bring distress and sorrow to th' families of the industrious laboring men whose interests are opposed to the wilt schemes of half crazy revolutionists ant reckless cranks, who talk of theories bu have no common-sense or practical notions in regard to the matter of which the, preach. And it is time that such fellow were hissed out of well ordered communi ties, in which they attempt to SOW tn seeds of discord, strife, and blood.