The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-18

house that endanger his, the law grabs
me. II I have Q tarnery or a chemical
factory, the malodors Of which injure res
dents in the neie hborhood. the law says;
"Stop that" II drain OF a river from
its bed, and divert it to turn my mill
| wheel leaving the bed of the river a breed.
| ing place for malaria, the law saws: "Quit
that outra &C." And has not q good gov.
eminent . right to say that few men
shall not gorge themselves on the com.
forts and health and life Of generations!
Your rights end whore my rights begin.
| Monopoly, brazen-faced and iron-d
| gered, vulture-hearted monopoly. Offers
his hand to this republic. He stretches
it out over the lakes, and mp the Pennsyl.
vania and the Erie and New York Central
Railroads, and over the telegraph poles Of
the continent. and says: "Here is my
heart and hand; be mine forever" Let
the millions of people, North and South.
East and West, forbid the bauns Of that
marriage-forbid them at the ballot box,
| forbid them on the platform. forbid them
by great organizations, forbid them by
the overwhelming sentiments of an out
of the Church of God, forbid them by
prayer to high heaven. That Herod shall
not have this Abigail. 1t shall not he to
all-devouring monopoly that this land il
to be married.
Another sutton claiming the hand Of this
Republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing
but knife for universal blood .letting and
nitro glycerine bomb for universal expio-
sion. He believes in no God, no govern
ment, no Heaven. and no hell except what
he can make on earth. He slew the Car
of Russia, keeps Emperor William of Ger
many practically imprisoned, killed Abra.
ham Lincoln, would put tn death every
King and President on earth. and if he
had the power would climb up until he
could drive the God OF Heaven from His
throne and take it himsels-the universal
butcher. In France il is called Commun-
ism, in the United States it is called So.
cialism, in Russia it is called Nihilism.
That last is the most graphic and de-
scriptive term. 1t means complete and
eternal smash-up. 1t would make the
holding of property crime, and it would
drive a dagger through your heart and
apply torch to your dwelling, and turn
over this whole land into the possession
of theft and lust and rapine and murder.
Where does this monster live: In st.
Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New
York; and in all the villages and cities of
this land. The devil of destruction is an
old devil, and he is to be seen at every
great fire where there's anything to steal,
and at every shipwreck where there is
anything valuable floating ashore. and at
every railroad accident where there are
overcoats and watches to be purloined.
On small scale l saw it in my col
lege days, when in our literary society in
New York University we had an exquis-
lite and costly bust of Shakespeare, and one
morning we found a hole bored into the
lips of the marble and a cigar inserted.
There has not for the last century been a
fine picture in your art gallery, or grace
full statue in Your parks. or a fine frescoe
on your wall, or a richly bound volume in
your library but would have been despoil-
ed if the hand of ruffianism could have got
at /. without peril of Incarceration. Some-
times the evil spirit shows itself by throw
ing vitriol into a beautiful face: sometimes
by wilfuliy soaring horse with a veloci-
pede; sometimes by crashing the cart
wheel against a carriage.
The philosophy of the whole business 10
that there is a larger number of people
who either through their laziness or their
crime own nothing, and are mad at those
who, through industry and wit OF their
own, or of their ancestors, are in possess
ion of large resources. The honest labor
ing classes never had anything to do with
such murderous enterprises. 1t is the viii
famous classes, who would not work il
they had plenty of work offered them at
large wages. Many of these suppose that
by the demolition of law and order they
would be advantaaed, and the parting of
as wreckers. to carry off the
cargo. 1t offers its hand to this
fair republic. 1t proposes to
tear to pieces the ballot box, the legis-
iative hail, the Congressional assembly. 1t
would take this land and divide it up, or,
rather, divide it down. 1t would give as
much to the idler as to the worker, to the
bad as to the good. Nihilism! This
panther having prowled across other
lands has set its paws on our soil, and it is
only waiting for the time in which to
spring upon its prey. 1t was Nihilism
that massacred the heroic policemen
of Chicago a few days ago, and
that burned the railroad property at
Pittsburgh during the great riots: it was
Nihilism that shot black people in our
Northern cities during the war: it was
Nihilism that again and again in San
Francisco and in New York mauled to
death the Chinese; it is Nihilism that
glares out of the windows of the drunk
cries upon sober people as they go by.
All! its power has never yet been tested.
1t would, if it had the power. leave every
church, chapel, cathedral, school house,
college and home in ashes.
Yet this Nihilism, with feet red with
comes forth and offers its
hand for the republic. Shall the banns be
proclaimed: If so, where shall the mar
riage altar be: and who will be the Off
ciating priest? And what will be the
music? That altar will have to be white
with bleachsd skulls, the officiating priest
must be a dripping assassin. the music
be the smothered groan of multitudin-
Gus victims, the garlands must be twisted
of nightshade, the fruit must be apples
Of Sodom, the wine must be the blood of
st. Bartholomew's massacre. No! 1t is
not to Nihilism, the sanyuinital monster,
that this land is to be married.
Another sutton for the hand of this Ma.
ton is Infidelity. Mark you that all An
archists are infidels. Not one of them be-
lieves in the Bi BILE, and very rarely any of
them believe in a God. Their most con-
spicuous leader was the other day pulled
by the leg from under bed in a house of in
fanny. cursing and blaspheming. The po-
lice of Chicago. exploring the dens of the