The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-11
It won's work.

Communism Is plant which will
not grow in our climate. There are
constituents in the black, hcalthful
and heavily producing soil of Texas
which are dead against 1t. Commun-
ism is the product of poverty and
misery, Joined to demagogism and
blood-thirstiness. Demagogery takes
advantage of povery and misery to
lead it away from the moorings of
that safety which is alone found IN
oruer. In Texas we have no poor
people on the basis of those poor peo-
pie among whom the deadly plant
first found nurture. No man has ever
gone to bed hungry in Texas because
of absolute poverty since the first
white settler crossed the Sabine. Our
rich fields, prepared by nature ready
to tho hands of the husbsndman, furn-
ishes remunerative employment for
all who want to work, and plenty OF
sustenance for all who want to eat.
The cry which rang along the streets
of Paris when that awful revolution
broke out, "give us work or give us
bread" cannot rally the mob in
Texas, nor can it ever be called upon
to license the demagogery of the
day, which would impel the unthink-
ing masses upon the bayonets Of order
and of authority. The conditions
for such state of things, the
means by which lawlessness and
bio od-shed are justified. are
all wanting n here. We have
no hungry men, starving women
and helpless children whose hard
conditions hurl frenzied men upon
tNe guns of organized government
the palladium of human rights. Four
dollars day will provide all the ne
C ssities aud many of the luxuries of
an ordinary family, and if it don't, all
else may be had for the simple ask
lug. .kst how the agiiators and
strikers of Galveston aud Houston
mean to justify their recent ac-
lions, before the tribunals of pub
lis opinion and justice, we fail
to see. Wo have here a genial eli
mate where the rudest shelter pro-
tects one from all the icy blasts of
winter. The icy blast is indeed u
myth. Cheap clothing only is
necessary, while in less favor
ably situated lands, only the heavi-
est and costliest woolens are impera-
lively called for by the rigor OF the
winters blast.
Evils which Justify the use Of I'M
lawful means-unusual or bloody
means, must be clearly very grave
and menacing indeed. No one of all
the workers on the Galveston
wharves or in the workshops of Hous-
ton eau point to the semblance of an
excuse for the use of either the strike
or the boycott. Four dollars for ten
hours work is good enough. Now,
because the Houston Age said so, it
is boycotted, aud men who adver-
tise in or subscribe to it are
also boycotted. Opinions are not
free in this country, it seems. How
long would free press be able to
guard the liberties ola free people, If
such things can be done, as to silence
them by means such as those tried on
the Age? Some advert sers did act
ually take their advertisements out of
the paper, at the demand of the
knights. Now suppose the mass of
conservative consumers conclude
never to again buy the beer of An
heuser or purchase q dollars worth
of goods from such merchants; is it
not plain that this sort of reverse ac-
ton would be death to such enter
prise or such business as INDUCED
in il.
That means Of redressing any real
or imaginary evil will never succeed
to any remarkable degree in the
south, but more especially in Texas.
AS we have said above. the condi-
tions are all against it. We are
community OF agriculturists rather
than manufacturers, aud the tillers of
the soil are mostly its o. ners, or at
least they are its beneficiaries to such
an extent that they will never enter
into compact with the agitators. In
deed, it can't be done. Strife and
disorder cannot be stirred up in
Texas by any such means.