Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-25

comfort and health and life Of g nerationsi
Your rights end where my rights begin.
Monopo ,iron-fngered. AMI
vulture-hearted, monopoly-offers his hand
TO this Republic He stretches it out over
the lakes and No the Pennsylvania aud the
Erie and the 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 the peO-
pie, North, South, East and West forbid
the banns of that marriage, forbid them al
the ballot boz, forbid them ON the platform,
forbid them by great examinations, forbid
them by the overwhelming sentiment of an
outraged nation. forbid them by the protest
o. the church of God, forbid them by prayers
= TO high heaven. That Herod shall not have
this Abigail. 1t shall not he to all devouring
monopoly that this land is to be married.
Another sutton claiming the hand of this
Republic is NihiliSm. He owns nothing but
knife for universal blood-etting and a
nitro-glvcerine bomb for universal explo-
son. He BELIEVES in no God no government,
no heaven, and no hell except what he can
make on earth! He slew the Gar of Russia,
keeus Emperor William, of Germany, prac-
tically imprisoned, kile Abraham Lin"oln,
would nut to 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 himself, the universal butcher.
In France it Is called Communism; in the
United States it is called Socialism; in
Russia it is called Nihilism, but that last is
the most graphic and descriptive term. 1t
means complete and eternal smash up. 1t
would make the holding of property crime
and it would have a dagger through your
hesrt and torch to your dwelling and turn
over this whole land into the possession of
theft and lust and rapine and murder
Wlara doac fbic litra1 In
In Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New York, and
in all the cities and villages of this land. The
devil of destruction is an old devil, and he is
to be seen at every great fire where there Is
anything to steal, and at every shipwreck
where there is anything valuable floating
ashore, and at every railroad accidept where
there are overcoatS and Watches to be pur-
Joined On small scale l saw it in my col
ege days, when, in our literary soci-
ETY. in New York University, we had
IN exquisite and costly bust of
Shakespeare, aud one morning we
'ound hole bored into the lips of the marble
AMI cigar inserted. There has not for the
last century been a fine picture in your art
gallery or a graceful statue in your parks OF
a fine fresco on your wall or a richly bound
alum in your library but would have been
1esDoiled if the hand of ruffian SIN could have
got at It without peril of iucarce" ration Some
times the evil spirit shows itself by throwing
7iniol into beautiful face, sometimes by
wilfully soaring horse with velocirede.
sometimes by crashing its Cartwheel against
a carriage.
The philosophy Of the whole business is
chat there is large 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 possessions of large re.
sources. The honest laboring classes never
hal anything to do with such murderous ell
terprises 1t is the villainous classes who
would not work il they had plenty of
work offered them at largo wages. Many
Of these suppose thai by the demoli-
! t on of law and order they would be
advantared and the parting of the ship VI
| state would allow them as wrecke"s to carry
Of some cf the cargo. 1t offers its hand to
dhis fair re0ublic. 1t proposes to tear to
pieces the ballot box. the Legislative hall, the
| ConGre ssional 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. Nj
hi ism-this Misunderstanding prowled across
| 0th0r lands has set its paws on our SOIL and
it is only waiting for the time in viii to
spring upon its prey. 1t was NihiliSm that
massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago
and st. Louis few days ago and that
burned the railroad property at Pittsburg
during the great riots it was Nihilism that
slew back PEOPLE in our Northern cities dur
ing the war; it was Nihilism that again and
.aga'n in San Francisco and New York
nfauled to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism
thatglares out OF the windows of the drunk
eriesupon sober people as they go by. All!
its power has never yet been used 1t would,
If it had the power, have every church,
chapel, cathedral, school house, college and
| home in ashes.
Let me say it is the worst enemy of the
laboring classes in any country The honest
cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring
men is drowned out by the vociferations Tor
anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds
who range through our cities talking about
their rights when their first right is the peni-
tent 'a;y-if they could be hushed up, and
the downtrodden la5oring men of this
country could be heard, there would
be more bread for hungry children.
In this land rot and bloodshed never gained
any wages for the people, or ga hered up any
prosperity. In this lau1 the best weapon is
not the club, not the shillelah, not fire arms,
but the ballot Let not our oppressed labor
ing men be be2uiled into coming under this
bloody banner of Nihilism. 1t will make
your taxes heavier, YOUR wages smaller,
your table scantier, your chill tren hun
grier, your suffering greater. Yet this Mill.
ism, with feet red with slaughter, comes forth
and offers its hand for this republic Shall
the marriage altar be! Aud who will be the
officiating priest! And what will be the
music2 That altar viii have to be white
with blea2hed skulls the music must be thu
sm offered groans of multtu iinous victims
the garlands must be twisted of nightshade
the fraits must be apples of Sodom, the wine
must be the blood of St. Bartholo news mas
ga.re. No!i5 is not to Nih,lism, the san
gunital monster, that this land is to be mar
Iie1.
Another suitor for the hand of this nation
is inidelity. Mark you that all anarchists
are inhdelS. Not one of them believes in the
Pible,and very rarely any of them believe il
God. Their most conspicuous leader wa
he other day pulled by the leg from un14
n bed in house of infamy, cursing AMI bias
phaming. The police of Chicago, explor n
4 the dens of the Anarchists, found dynamit
and vitriol and Tom Paine's Age of Reaso
and obs enc pictures and complimentary
biographies of thugs and assassins but nc
one testament, not one of Wesleys hymn
books, not ono Roman Catholic breviary
There are two wings to Infilelity. The on
calls itself beralism and appears in highl
| tsrary maya ines and is for the educated an
refinei The o5her wing is in the form o
anarchy and is for the vug6r But bot
wings belong to the same old filthy vulturt
InfiGelltyl Elegant infideity proposes t
con Iuer this land to itself by the pen Al
archy prop ases to con lrer it by bludgeo
and 10 'ch.
When the midnight ruffiaus despoiled I'll
grave Of A. T. Stewart in st. Marks churcl
yard everyb Jdy was shocked But infdelit
ropes s somrtnin worse than that--the rol
b NJ of all the graves of chris 5endom of th
h,rrN Of n resurrection 1t proposes to CHS
out from the tombstones OF your Christia
dead the words "Asleep in Jesus and to sui
stitute the words "Obliteration, annihils
ton" 1nfidelity proposes TO take the lette
from the worlds Father inviting the nation
to virtue and happiness, and tear it up int
fragments 50 small that you cannc
read word of it, 1t propose
to take the consolation from the broke
hearted and the soothing pillow from
the dying. Infidelity proposes to swea
in the President of the United State