Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-04-05
The SevF.e,or In Politics.

Auc NOW EuCtoT IN OtittCbs
Dynamite as Q device of revolution
lists peryades Italy, Russia, Spain, Ire
land, and England. Il is the weapon
OF Internationally poor, driven TO des-
peration by those processes OF legisla-
ton which steadily transfer country's
wealth from the many 10 the few.
Here multitudes are Impoverished,
while through tariff and railway land.
grant concessions, the few deprive the
MANY of the meahest necessaries Of life.
Unwise and corrupt and lobby -begot-
ten class legislation becomes finally
the manufacturer Of Dynamite. The
present tariff code q most liberal
charter for future giant-powder mills.
Each concession. OF broad areas Of
country now made by Secretary Teller
to railway Spectators is ultimately
the authorization of the most generous
manufacture of devilish engines for
the destruction of life and property.
These dynamite mills are having their
foundations strongly and securely laid
by recent Republican legislation and
by the hourly Republican official ac-
tion of Mr.. Secretary Teller. Glass
Legislation gave TO few the realty of
England ard Ireland. Government it.
self straps a heavy soldier on the back
of every toiler in the fields and farms
of Europe. Here we have, instead,
lords of mills aud foc.ories and the
railway land grant nobility foisted
upon the peoples backs. The burdens
are borne most patiently; but when
population becomes dense, and the
struggle for bread, as in Europe. be.
comes one of life and death, these in
to!erable impositions upon the Drawn
and muscle of overtaxed industry will
be blown away with dynamite. 1t is
a new and fixed factor in civilization
which statesmen must recognize; and,
while watching its uses and shudder-
ing in the presence of its ghastly work
in Europe, they should not forget that
kings and the governing classes of Eu.
rope are the real criminals. They have
strapped soldiers and Goulds and
Huntipgtons and paper-pulp Millers
upon the weary, crackings bones of
starving peoples bereft Of every JOY
of lie and of land, and hardly suffered
to inhale the air of heaven untaxed by
by class legislation. Every explosion
of dynamite in the Old World is an
appeal to statesmen and patriots IN
this, insisting that the whole theory OF
this wretched system OF oligarchical
misrule, crystallized into tariff and
financial and railway codes by the Re-
publican party of consolidation and
empire, must speedily lead, even here
to dynamite revolts. Though un.
named, it is plainly visible as an din
fant industry" and Its growth in pow
er and vice and uni -heard-of criminal
lty is protected by every clause o.
the tariff act and by every deed signed
by Mr.. Teller transferring free, God
given Land of the people to th'
exclusive use of the railway po.
tentates. There is valuable lessor
for American rulers in the statemen
made Wednesday by an English mem
ber of Parliament, that he would no
dare to sit in that body if Irishmen dit
: not sit beside him. If the Republican
praty were suffered to continue il
power through another decade, and it
vices of class Legislation remain opera
tive, no weight of dome, or sanctity 0
Libertys goddess's or splendor Q
architectural art, or veneration o
sages, memories who have counsele
within the gorgeous Capitol, coul
: guard 1t against the hate of multi
! tudes, stepped IN poverty and wretch
edness by those processes of legislatio
constantly widening and deepenin
the chasm that separates, even i
America, the rich from the poor
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