The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-25

Ia nature. storms are necessary, as
well to preserve the equilibrium OF
things as to purify the atmosphere.
In politics they are necessary when
ever the elements become corrupt and
inefficient. We have had tariff storms,
currency storms, commercial storms,
and these latter have scattered the
wrecks of private fortunes all along
the shores of trade. as thickly and as
badly wrenched as were Antony's
barges on dark Actium's beach. We
have had our grand slavery storm
which ragged four years, and oceans
of blood and other oceans of tears
were shed. The calm came after
but the seething waves would not
down until passion, sectional pas
8 on, had died out of men's bosoms.
In the approaching storm there will
be oceans of tears against single drops
in the last storm. and when once the
throat.cutting commences, 1t will be
the work of decades, If not centuries
to restore order and wipe the tears
from the eyes of the victims-those
of them who are left to weep. This
storm will come by and through the
at present, hardly audible mutterings
of the feeling between labor and cap
ital, between communism and con
servatism. This war will have
no one starting point. There
will be no Ohio or Potoma,
to divide the foes. Our mex,
door neighbor will retire at night q
beneficiary of our bounty, but he will
awake in the morning bloody and
determined foe, the sword and the
torch, the ministers ofhis wrath. The
conflict will rage from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, from the st. Lawrence to
the Gulf. No section will be exempt
no man safe.
The gloomy part of it all is, thai
while these active revolutionary ele-
ments are being rapidly combined
organized and prepared for their
fell task, no steps for defense are
taken. Conservatism is building no
ramparts about her rights; no lines
of retreat sre being prepared, no asy-
lums for the distressed. We go on
blindly, and the turbulent of New
York, of Boston, of Philadel.
phia, of Baltimore, of Pittsburg,
of Cleveland. of Cincinnati, OF
Chicago, of ST. Louis, of Louisville,
and indeed of every hamlet in tn,
land, are being closely organized
drilled aud prepared in every way
for the struggle against propert!
rights and the status quo of society
Can any one be so blind to-day tina
he does not see the black cloud and
the flashes of vivid lightning play.
ing over its dark depths, and hear th,
mutterings of its approach? Tn
organs of comm nism ar,
bold, outspokeD and con
fident. We see its effec
in many ways. A single railroad en-
gineer let's his hand fall on his tabl
at Cleveland and every railroad trail
In the United States comes to stand
still at once. Supplies for the needy
medicine for the sick, father hasten
ing to the bedside of SUI
fering or dying child, stol
at the mandate of a powel
with which it is useless to contenC
because 1t is utterly irresponsible al
well as uncomfortable. The long
shoremen of the marine cities of tn,
country are called to halt and COM
merce stands still. This is the SAINT
power which in other places and al
other times rises up and swears thai
there shall be only common prop
erty; that all the wise, the foolish, the
rich, the poor, the ignorant, the intel.
ligent, the virtuous, the wicked, all
must move on the same exact level
There shall be no grades, no differ
ence.
The next great storm will be to
clear all this up, to settle, If all that
experience has found to be excellent
is but the chimera of a disordered
memory, or if vice, ignorance and
prejudice shall stand in place of viz
tue, intelligence and federation. 1t
viii be long aud bloody fight, but in
the end the right will prevail, be.
cause God wills 1t.