The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-06-17

reaching out toward the caatlei as fine an
| array Of strength and health and beauty ~
one ever sees, Three hours after preached
| IN tho Grass market and TO the wIetched
inhabitants Of the Cowgate and the Canon
! gate, the audience exhibiting the squaloI
and slcklmess and despair that remains In
ones mind like one Of the visions OF "Danto'a
Inferno"
Great monopolies In any land imply great
! priyaiion, The lime will come when oui
! government will have TO limit the amount
OF accumulation Of property, unoonstitu-
tional, do you aay2 Then constitutions will
have to be changed until they allow such
! Limitation, Otherwise the work of absOrp-
tion will 30 on, and the large fishes will cal
up the small fishes, aud tho shad will
swallow the minnows, and tho porpoise
, swallow the shad, and the whales swallow
the poTpolaea,Nnd thousand greedy men
will own all the world, and five hundred OF
, these will eat up the other five hnndred,
and one hundred cat up tho other four
hundred, and finally there will be only fifty
left, and then forty, and then thirty, and
then twenty, aud then ten, and then two,
aud then one,
But would law Of Limitation Of wealth
| 10 NHllEHlfUNhN ~ NlH w l'hi NY
neighbor'a foundations In order 10 build
my house that | endanger his the law grabs
me, III / have iOnnery, or chemical
factory the malodors OF which injure resi-
dents in the ndghborhood the law says.
"Stop that" II ! drain of n river from ita
bed and divert II TO turn my mlll-wheel,
leaving the bed OF the river breeding
place FOR malaria, the law says; "Quit that
Outrage" Aud has not good government
right 10 say that few men shall not
gorge themselves on the comfort and health
and life Of genoralunsy Your rights end
wltre my nights begin,
Monopoly, bra2cn-f0ced and iron-lln-
gerrd, yume.hcarted monopoly, nifcrs hs
hand 10 this republic, llo stretches 10 out
over The lakos aud mp The Pennsylvania aud
the Eric and tho New York Central Rail.
roods, aud over the telegraph poles Of tho
continent and SAYS Here IL my heart
aud hand be- mine forever" Lot tho
millions Of the people, north, SOUTH east,
and west, forbid The bapnH Of that MARRIAGE
: forbid them ut the bullot-b box, forbid
them on the platform, forbid them by great
organizations, forbid them by tho over
whelming sentiments Of an outraged ma
tion, forbid them by the protest Of tho
church Of God, forbid them by prayer 10
high heaven, That Heiod shall not have
this Abigail, II shall moi be 10 all .doyour-
ing monopoly that this land IL TO DO mar.
ried
, Another sultor claiming the hand Of this
republic n nihiIism. lie owns nothing but
knife for universal blood-letting aud q
nitro.glycerine bomb for universal OK
ploaion, llo believes In no God, no gov
ernmcnt, no heaven, aud no hell except
what he can make on earth He slew tho
Gar Of Russia, keeps Emperor William, Of
Germany practically imprisoned, killed
Abraham Lincoln, would put TO death oyoy
king and president on earth, and, II he had
the power, would climb up until he could
drive the God Of Heaven from His throne,
and take II himaolf-tho universal butcher
In France II IL called oommunami In tho
United StOt0s II Ia called socialism, In
Russia Il ia called nihiliam, That last IL
the most graphic and descriptive torn, II
means complete aud eternal amash.up, II
would make the holding Of property
crime, and II would drive dagger through
your heart, and apply torch 10 your dwell.
ing ana turn over this whole land into tho
possession Of theft, and lu0t, and rapino,
and murder,
Whore dOOa this monster liyo2 In 81.
Louis, In Chicago, In Brooklyn, In New
York, and IN Ol the dlmgca aud citioR OF
this land. The devil OF destruction IN m
old devil, and ho N TO be- seen ut every great
Aro whore there ~ anything TO steal, and vi
every ahipWrocl, whore there IL anything
valuable iloOting ashore, and Ut every rail.
road accident whore there ore oyOrconle aud
UfuINIaU Ia IL. t.tsVlalnaI a. A all Eaula
saw it In my college DAYS. whom In our
literary society In New York University wo
had an exquisite and costly bust OF Shakg.
pearo, and ono morning wo found u hole
bored into the lips Of the marble and q
cigar inserted, There has not for the last
century boon fine picture In your art
gallery, or graceful statue In your parks,
or fine freoco on your WALL or richly.
bound volume In your library but would
have been doepoilod " the hand OF runlan-
ism could have got at II without peril OF In.
cnrcoratlon, Sometimes tho evil spirit
shows itself by throwing vitriol into q
beautiful facei sometimes by willfully scar
ing horeo with yolocipodo, sometimes
by crashing the cart.whosl against car
riago.
Tho philosophy Of tho whole business 10
that there IN largo number OF people who
either through their laEineaa or ihoir crlmo
own nothing, and are mad at those who
through industry aud wit OF their own, or
OF thoir ancestors, aro In possession OF
largo resources Tho honest laboring
olaeeoe noyor had anything 10 do with such
murdoroue enterprises. II Ia the yillainoua
olanaoa, who would not work N thoy had
ponty OF work ollorod thom al large wages.
Many OF these suppose that by the domoli-
tion OF law and order they would bo adyant-
aged, aud the parting OF the ship OF state
would allow thom, as wrcckora, 10 carry of
the cargo, II oilop itu hand 10 this fair
republic, II proposes 10 tear 10 piooop tho
b0llol.box, the Legislative hall, tho con.
groasonol assembly. II would take this
land and divide II mp, or, rather, divide II
down. II would give ae much 10 tho dlor
az 10 tho worker, 10 the bad ~ 10 the good.
Nihilieml The panther having prowlod
across other lands, has aet In paws on our
Boil, aud II Ia only waiting for tho time In
which 10 spring upon la proy. II was
nihiligm that maeeacred the horolo police. |
mon OF Chicago and ST. Louis q fow DAYS
ago and that burned the railroad property
nj Pittsburgh during tho great riots. II
MNN NhhN HA'N iANNh H'ulllN ln OuI
Northern citios during the war, Il waa
nibilism that agoin aud again In San Fran.
cisco aud In New York moulod 10 death tho
Chinoso II Ia nihlism that glaros out Of
the windows Of the drpnkorlos upon sober
people ~ they 70 by. All Ia power has
never yot been tested, II would, II II had
the power leave every church, chapel,
cathedral, school.houee, college, and homo
In ashes.
Let me say II Ia the worst enemy Of tho
laboring classes In any country. Tho
honest cry for reform lifted by oppressed
leboring mon s drowned out by tho
yociferOlons for anarchy, The criminals
and the yOgabonds who range through our
cities talking about their righte, whom their
FIRST right is the peuiteuilory--if they could
be huehed up, and the down. rodden
laboring men Of this country could DO
heard, there would be more bread for