The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-06
THE WIND AND TIE WHIRLwIND.

There is philosophy that cannot be over
come in the adage that they who SOW the
wind shall reap the whirlwind. In the pres
ence of the whirlwind let loose in Chicago and
in Milwaukee it may be well to examine a
little into the sowing that preceded it. Such
an outbreak could not occur without cause,
and without adequate cause. Distinctly it is
to be traced to the doctrines of scoundrels who
have been given an asylum in this country,
and have been protected under the freedom
that is supposed to be the right of every man
in this land There is fond belief in the
minds Of the mass of the people, and it is
kept aliveand exaggerated by Fourth Of July
rot, that for some mysterious reason the United
States is not and cannot be amenable to
ed the race since the beginning Of time. This
is dangerous error, and when made the
most of by such vermin as here and there dis
grace the name of men, there can be no
bounds set to the possibilities of evil involved
in it, 1t may as well be understood first as
last that republican government self gov
eminent, requires the utmost circumspection,
a public sentiment Of the most healthful ma
ture, self-repression the most decided al
sense of responsibility the most universal. 1t
would be well to 60 back to the beginning Of
things, and to read the farewell address of
President Washington, and see how the calm,
judicial, PRESIDENT mind of that unselfsh pa
triot regarded the dangers from which the
country was likely to suffer. Fundamentally,
there must be respect for law on the part of
all the people, and particularly on the part Of
those whose duty or responsibility may be to
be teacher or administrator. It is Is not
wise for the public man, or the newspaper,
or the pulpit, to give forth an uncertain sound
ON any of the vital questions that underlie
the peace and order Of society The out
breaks in Chicago and elsewhere can be al
most directly traced to the demagogy and
cowardice of public men and teachers. It is
so much easier to tickle the fancy or to min
lister to the lust and passion of men than it is
to tell the solemn truth. It is so much
easier and more populur to ignore the divine
teaching that in the sweat Of the face men
shall eat their bread, and to paint to them
some impossible and yet alluring Utopia.
Churches may be SO much more readily filled
by this gospel of flowers and gush. Newspa-
pers may attain so much larger circulation by
pandering = the idle and demagogic classes,
and filing them with the east wind of their
great power in this land of individual free
dom, where every man is sovereign. The
public man that trifes with his conscience
can get so many more votes; he can be spoken
of for Congress, and he can be cheered by the
unthinking for his skillful demagogy. The
officer Of the law can obtain second term so
much more easily when he tempers the law to
the brawling but Influential" worker. The
United States is the land of the free, but it is,
and must be, peculiarly the home of law or it
will soon cease to be the former. The emf
has no hand in framing or executing, must be
taught by every possible process that here he
must be particularly the servant of the law
which he both makes and executes. The
"patriop from abroad, who leaves his country
for his country's good, must be here taught
that this country is no place for the propaga-
ton of the heresies which made him an enemy
to the peace of his native land He must
leave his dynamite. with all it represents, be-
citizen, or he must be politely refused when
he attempts to land as we refuse to receive
any foreign criminals or paupers. America is
open for any man who wants to become the
free law-abiding citizen of free law-abiding
country but 1t must be and will be closed
against those vermin who come here to
plant their pestiferous doctrines of social an
archy. The demagogy, or fancied freedom
from amenability to the operation Of the law
of cause and effect, that permits Herr Most,
Scwab, and others of that ilk, to preach their
doctrines ad libitum, aud infame the mad
passions of men agsint person and property,
must be stopped. The right to manufacture
and deal in dynamite bombs and internal ma
chimes, that cannot possibly be used for any
lawful purpose, is no more Sacred" than the
right to manufacture and deal in counterfeit
money. Indeed, the latter is not half so dam
gerous.
But while we talk of the enforcement Of
law against these people, the law must be
obeyed by or enforced against the better classes