The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04
OMIXOUS INDICATIONS.


fsrring to an article it prints this
week from the Christian Unisn on
the rapid increase of esmmunistic
and other kindred societies
throughout the world, and the dis
tress and perplexity everywhere
encountered, says editorially:
ave have. been saying for sew
eral years there was danger ahead
but in the main we have been
speaking to deaf ears. Any one
with eyes TO see what is going on
in Russia, in France, in Italy, in
Germany, in Ireland, in England
and in the United States ought to
see there is wider and larger dis
satisfaction than ever known be-
fore. 1t is not very likely there
would be this unrest unless there
was canse. What is the causef
We have said the cause is-our
modern civilization. Who is TO
blame for this civilizationf No
bsdy, or rather everybody. Herr
Most, the anarchist, is as much to
blame for our present civilization
as the kings and queens and en-
perors and presidents and sena.
tors and judges and rich people.
The blame is not on this or that
person, but on all persons.
"Are we aware that during the
past fifty years, which bounds
what we have called modern civ.
ilization, there has been accom-.
plished a silent but gigantic revs-
luton I Fifty years ago speaking
largely there we're no railroads or
telegraphs or huge factories in the
United States. Every community
was it's own manufacturer. All
the clothes and shoes and hats
and undergarments were made at
hslae. All the houses we're built
by home people; they quarried
the stone and burnt the brick and
sawed tho lumber and made the
doors. They bought away from
home few locks and nails and
panes of glass. For home con-
sumption of all kinds everything
was raised at home. And in every
community there we're large num-
bers of respectable mechanics,
who were as high in the estima'
tion of the community as any OF
it's citizens. In every community
there were mills to grind the corn
and wheat, and the surplus was
taken away by horses.
ave laugh at all this. Herr
Most laughs; all laugh all agree
to call it slow and easy times
But what is the best civilization
Is it net that which gives plenty
and contentment to the greatest
number? Such was the civiliza
tion of fifty years ago, and 1t &C
complished good to all. But thi'
slow age has passed never tc
return. We have now in th,
counties no timers, nor hatters
nor tailors nor shOemakers; w
have huge factories, where tin
ware and hats and coats ant
shoes and garments are turned
out by the million-and all wan
1t so. Papers are now read b.
the millions; so printers ant
pressmen and editors do not wisl
to go back to the old hand-pres
that printed a few hundred paper
a day; these no more want to g
back to the old times than others
There has been a silent but gigan
tic revolution through railroad
! and steamships and factories AM
machinery. These have 8,
! charged our civilization, tha
! large numbers of men and womeI
/. have become like the machine
I they work, and must rise early
, heard together in the factories
] and so are no longer like thei
GRANDPARENTS, whether In speach o
thought, or feelings, or doing'
!. Who is to blamei Nobody, o
everybody. The man turned int
a machine, he has helped an
does now help on the present civ