The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-20
socialism.


The advance of socialism, OF an
archy, and of the bad influences con-
nected with them In this country is
perfectly appalling. Little has been
done, little is being attempted as yet,
to repress these forces of pure, un-
alleged and recognized evil. Social
ism contemplates an impossible,
chimerical republic without law, with
out social distinction, of common pro-
piety common relations in life. destroy
ing all domestic, or other restraints,
distinctions and oblis ations. 1t is an
awful progress. Men stand before
its hidcousness dumbfounded, fright
ened, and nerveless: and when they
contemplate the inroads 1t has made,
the foot-hold IL has obtained aud the
number of adhcrents it has called
about the board of its councils, ono is
almost constrained to give up in de-
spair. Socialism is the core, the
germ, the ultimate object of pihilism,
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horrors imported from Europe, from
the restless and the vicious of those
lands, where absolutism, with lis full
policy of wrong, of repression and of
oppression has wrought this other
extreme far more dangerous and
threatening than the other. While
in some parts ofEurope there EXISTS a
mere shadow of cause, yet in
this country, with its Wanted
freedom of personal and in
dividual action, no sort OF
excuse can be urged by the devo-
tees of anarchy. Here the man who
works, be his tasks what they may
has bread, clothing and shelter sufii-
cient, not only for life but for a
species of luxury unknow to peop'e
of even higher grades In Europe.
There is no room, no excuse aud nc
mission here for these anarchists. The
latitude given the citizen in this lane
of freedom, while it has conferred 1
grand boon upon the vir;uous has ye
wrought an awful evil upon svviet,
in encouraging and building up thu
forces of evil as represented in TIL
combinations we have named.
The government apparently ha
not yet learned where TO draw tn
line between the natural and whole
some liberties granted the people, an'
those sinister, dangerous and un
wholesome licenses ont of whicl
American socialism has grown. Tn
sooner it sets about learning this im
portant lesson and applying th
needed corrections the better. In
deed we do not doubt but that valua
BILE time has already been lost in thi
A way and what could have been handle,
9 easily twenty years siuce-stampe'
. out with siugle effort, will now re
o quire both wisdom and force TO des
3 with 1t in any promising or eflectiv
: way. These baleiul evils while the.
are still measurably confined TO on
: citizens of foreign birth, are ye
:. quietly and surely permeating aud in
fecting the great mass Of our laborin
population, and the resultant strike
!. and unlawful interference with tn
d business of the country amply at
" test the damage TO which the couu
: try is exposed from this cause, au
call for prompt and efficient il
: terfercnce by the government of tn
country.
The late outbreaks in the NORTH
: west, notably in Illinois, have bee
met in manly way for the first tint
q No matter what the obligations a
sumed by the members of these III
wholesome combinations, they al
u thus taught that the laws Of the Ian
supercede them and rise higher an
demand the first obedience, aud, fai
ingin rendering this the sociaIistic law
breaker runs up against the bayonet
70 of either state or federal auth GRITTY an
l. organization. With these they car
not contend. A very few very sever
losses in this way will drive the lie
= son home nsuch way as 10 sicken d
" representatives of European a-arch
with the United States as field fc
a their exhibition. Lot little reseIv
d of maniulluess be collected End al
piled by the government, aud yer
soon these evils which are now s
Z grave will be depressed entirely.