Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-23
THURsDAY.........sEpT'R %. 1885.
Turning the World Upside Down.

God. These laws cannot possibly be
chspged by man. Water will run
dowr-hill, FIRE viii burn, ginger will Dc
bot IN the mouth, let the would.bs re-
formsrs say and do what they will. As
there Is no royal road to learning, so
there il no royal road to success in any
occupation Of life. 60 The thing that
has been is the thing that shall be, and
there is no new thing under the SUM-"
Do not be afraid that SOLOMON was
mistaken. The cranks will never con-
qusr the world.
As in Thessalonics of old there were
men who were charged with turning the
world upside down, so there are nova
days men, too easily alarmed, who hide
themselves and call upon others to put
down those whom they denounce as dis
turbers of the peace Of the community.
The men who clamor for the lawyers,
or the stump-speakers, or the press, to
devote their time, talents, money. and
skill in the use Of epithets to the object
ofputting down nsw-fangled notions and
theories subyersiys Of oil the teachings
Of political economy, are the very men
who are most timid and most easily
frightened from their propriety. These
men have no faith whatever in man
kind. They forget that the laws of ma
surs operate upon all these fellows
who would turn the world upside
down, and will in due time cause them
to change their erroneous opinions. No
man adopts wrong theories because
they are wrong. All men are bound
to believe any proposition'in support Of
which evidence absolutely convincing is
produced.
There is the fist-money advocate.
He holds to-day that for the Govern
ment to print upon piece Of paper
"This is Dollar is to make dollar.
He does not, however, hold that to
print upon piece Of paper "This is
q Pint OF Milk" would be to make q
pint Of milk. He knows better, and
would Of course laugh you to scorn If
you were to try to induce him to swsl-
low Q milk.ticket as substitute for
milk. Now, the man who already
knows this latter fact will some day
know the former. lie has in his COM
position the =" making Of sound the
DRY on the subject of real as contra
distinguished from fat money.
There is the perpetual-motion theo-
rist. He knows that he can't himself
live without eating, and therefore may
perhaps be taught that machine can't
live without eating. 1t must be fed,
that is moved from the outside. 1t
cannot run forever. Even for this
man there is therefore hope.
There is the life-insurance theorist
who holds that men can associate
themselves together and each of them
draw thousands Of dollars from fund
to which each has not contributed rs
masy hundreds Of dollars. Be sure
be will know better when he shall
have lived few years longer.
THERE'S the man who expects to force
wages to rise in contempt Of the laws
Of nature. Surely he is bound to find
out his mistake before he turns the
world upside down. He is not vicious
man. On tho contrary, he Is . lover Of
his species, aud wishes well TO all men.
II be had only one nsighbor to trade
with he would not expect that neighbor
70 agree to pay him high price for
whatever he bought and accept low
price for whatever he sold. Nor would
be, having many neighbors, expect to
increase his real wages by demanding
hiehprices for allhe sold and agreeing to
pay correspondingly high prices for all he
y bought. The folly Of such expecta.
lions was we'll illustrated here in Rich
Z mond during the war between the
States, when mechanics could earn ten
dollars = day or more, but we're not as
well off as when they had earned .
dollar day. because commodities had
risen in price faster than wages had In
creased. The halter may charge Q
hundred dollars for hat il he will pay
the shoemaker hundred dollars for
pair OF shoes. Each would get the
same pay as il be sold his hat or shoes
for five dollars.
But the worst Of the deluded classes
ere the men who hold that oil decisions
except their own may be cured at once
BY newspaper war upon them. All
thst Il 10 necessary TO do Is to pour
down upon the dsluded persons day
aiter day . shower Of spithets. Tell
thsm they are knavss or fools, and thoy |
vim soon b convinced that you are |
right and they wrong. Threaten them |
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