St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-10

and speeches were INDUCED in; procession
! five hundred strong, paraded the streets, with
| banners flying, inscribed with defiant and
! threatening notices, indicating purpose to
overthrow existing order in the life of so.
ciety Threats to burn the city were INDUCED
! in, and an invitation held out for a carnival
of plumber and bloodshed. Should those
| things be permitted to grow and strengthen,
| till they become resistless, or should the
strong hand Of the law be al once laid on
these vicious irstgators of misrule, these
foes to the commonest rights of SCOTLAND
business life. The only safe course is TO nip
these unruy, dangerous manifestations in
the bud. The apparent insensibility of the
people to these movements, the neglect of
civil authorities to put forth any effort to
restrain, are among the alarming signs of the
times. A social volcano is already on fire,
and unseen to, in time, will burst forth with
resistlcss fury. Now the disorg anizers may
be restrained, and shorn of their power for
mischief. A little more delay and their
doctrines viii have taken such deep root in
the purient natures of unruly men. that To
throttle their criminal purposes, will produce
a reign of terror like that OF the revolution
that convused France and spread terror
throughout Europe.
Those who cry out for restraining, rene
dial repression of these threatening, dangerous
demonstrations, are no needless or needless
alarmists, It is time to arouse and meet the
danger in its com parative infancy. Herr
Most is still permitted to utter his fiery har-
angues, to inflame the minds of reckless
hearers, unstrained, unmolested. He is
pestlent revolutionist, making his head quar-
tiers in New York, having fed from the
old world where the ruinous doctrines that he
promulgated would not be tolerated, to plant
the seeds Of discord and all that is destructive
to human government, and peace and safety
in the more congenial soil of free Republic.
where all monstrosities and faithlessness TO
law and order, instiled into the minds of the
unthinking, immature and criminal classes,
are carelessly overlooked and disregarded.
A few days since this pestient Herr Most,
the fiery incendiary and reyolutionist made
one of his most brilliant and inhamabe
speeches at Dramatic Hall, in the city of
Philadelphia, on the invitation of the inter
national "Workingmen's Association" The
animus of such an association may be under
stood by their invitation TO such crusader
of evil as this Johann Most. His theme was
''WOrkingmen and Social Revolution He
said. and no doubt sincerely, that the atmos-
phere of this country was better than that of
Europe. Here, as already remarked he can
utter his pestiferous doctrines unmolestcd,
A. 1. 4
utterances in a dungeon.
He said the time was not far Off, even here
when the conflict would burst forth, when
the poletarate (as he called the workingmen)
would Gay to the privileged classes, Thus
far and no farther" lie eulogized the assas-
Gin who lately attem pied to take the life Of
the Emperor William OF Germany. He un-
folded the proposed plan for the campaign of
4 social revolution. He took up the riots OF
1877, showing how they had started in Pitts
burg for trilc, and spread, and declared
that dynamite was to be their weapon.
He unfolded plan for the uprising Of the
masses. He said:
''Some fine day the poletariate must declare
that il will pay no more rent, no more taxes; the
tenant will say to the landlord: ''We have paid
more rent for this building that you gave me for
erecting it," This he followed by saying that
the poor, who are now wandering the streets
will some day take possession of the residences
Of the wealthy classes, aud IL the owner object,
the social revolution knows the Achilles whip
with which to st:ike the rich. The agent l.
petroleum mixture OF powder, petroleum
and turpentlne, fuse attached thereto, light,
and the whole fabric burns like lightning"
lie summed up the problem Of the social
revolution thus: "War 10 the throne; war
to the altar; war to the money-bags
prophecy that sooner or later the red flag Of
the revolution will wave over Independence
Hail."
A collection was then taken up, and the
surplus after paying expenses, the charma
said would be devoted to the arsenal which.
as Herr Most had stated, could be filed with
bombs at very small cost"
Shall these inceudiarics, growing conspic-
uous, against the safety of the State aud soci-
ETY., be longer heedIesSly, and uuthinkiugly
slept over, and drilled AS the sickly fgmcnts
Of unhealthy trainiugi II so, those who de-
ride or underestimate the constant action OF
these scething, agitatiug malcontents, viii in
the language of Herr Most some fine day."
confront tie ''po,eIariate'' armed with his
bombs aud fiery weapons of destruction.
Herr Most outlined the plan of cheaply arm
ing the poletariaie. Said be: "A little
grease, a little acid as cheap as blackberries,
some other acids, also very cheap, give nitro
glyceTiue. This mixed with sawdust and put
in hollow vessel and thrown under bar
racks, explOdes, aud the devil receives the
workman's foes. Bat the leaders OF the So
cial revolution know other weapons The
Indians OF South America have given them
20 US, mean the terrible arrow poison. A
needle dipped In this. little prick anl tAr
olag1Te dies Such missile in a tube which
YOU can carry as a walSiug-stick and
sou have splendid weapon.
Can these things be aud not arouse i'our
special wonder" that community can sleep
aud slu,nber, over 4 social volcano, burning
underneath, and getting ready to burst forth
with vicious fury, sulden destruction. anarchy
aud ieathi How much longer will this
increasing danger to everything fair aud
wholesome. in social, business and CONNER
cial lie be permitted to grow aud get strong.
unnoticcd, UNDECIDED, b the government
add civil auth0-itiesl \ grave and pregnant
question that must De answered, or ere long
i; will be too late, 20 prevent an o1;burst, too
terrible for contemplation.
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