The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-06-22

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bot would have been despoiled If the
hand of ruffianism could have got at il
without peril OF incarceration. Some.
times the evil spirit shows itself by
throwing vitriol into a heantiul face
sometimes by williully soaring horse
with a velocipede; sometimes by crash.
ing The cartwheel against carriage.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE WHOLE BUSINESS
IL, that there IS larger number OF peo.
Iple who either through their lsziness ol
their crime own nothing and are mad a,
those who through industry and wit OF
their own or Of their ancestors, are in
possession of large resources. The hon.
est laboiing classes never had anything
to do with such murderous oDlerprises
1t is the villanous classes, who would
(noe work IL they had plenty of work OF.
tered them at large, wages Many Of
these suppose that ny the demolition oil
law and order they would be advantsged
and the parting OF the ship OF state
would allow them, as wreckers, to carry
of the cargo. It offers its hand TO this
fair Republic. 1t proposes to tear to
pieces lhc..hallot box, the helcgi.lative hall
the Congressional assembly. 1t would
take this land and divide it up, or rather
divide j, down. 1t would give as much
to the idler "a TO the worker, to the bad
las to the good. Nihihsm! This pan.
|ther having rsowled across other lands
has set its paws on our sol, and il is only
waiting for The time in which to spring
upon it's prey. 1t was N'hilisn that mas-
sstred the heroic policemen Of Chiceeo
and ST. Louis few days ago. and that
burned the railroad proper,ysat Pits
burgh during the great riots; it.was Nj.
hilism that slew black people in our nor.
tbern cities during the war: it was Nj.
hilism thai again and again in San Fran.
cisco and New York mauled to dea,h the
Chinese; it is NihiIism that elsr.s out oil
the windows OF the drunkelies upon so.
Der people as they go hy. Ah!ts power
has never yet been tested II would, il
It had the power, leave every church.
chapel. cathedral, school house, college
and home in ashen.-
Let me say, il is
THE WORST ENEMY OF THE LABcRING
CLA sEs
in any court-y. The honest crv for re.
form lifted ny oppressed lahoring men
is drowned cpt by the vociie,aii,ns for
Anarchy. The criminals ard the vaga
honds who range through our cities talk
ing abou' their righ's, when their frst
right is he ppnitenliary-it they could
he bushed up, AMI the down ,roaden la
horing men OF this country could be
heard. there would he more. bread for
hungry children In this land riot and
blooished never gained any wages Tor
the i.eop!e, or gathered up any prosper
ity. In this land the hest weapon is rot
The club, not tie shllaleh, net FIRE arms.
but the ballot. LIT net our oppressed
laborlng men he heguiled to coming IN
der The bloody banner o. Nibilism. 1t
will make your taxes heavier, your wa
ges smaller, your table scanier, your
children bunerier, ,our 81 fiering greater.
Yet this Nihiliam. With feet red of
slaughter, comes ior'h and ffers its hand
for The republic. Shall the hanDs be
proclaimedp If so where shall the mar
riag- altar he and who will be the Of
ticia'ing mie.t2 And what will he tn.
music That aiinr will hsve to he white
with lleac' ed skulls, the officiating
prie-l must be dlippine assassin. the
music mu I've the smo hered eroan of
tt uul'itudirous victims, the garlsnds must
be t~i.t d OF n'eh,shade, TIE fruit must
be apple of Sodom, the wine must be
the blood of ST Bar'holomc w's massacre.
No! 1t i. not to Nibilism, the ssnguin.
uai monster, that this land is to be mar
rird.
Another suitor Tor the band of this
nation is s,5~'.+.
IHFIDELlTY. sce
Mark YOU that all Anarchists are infdels
M, one OF lb.m believes in the Bible
and very rarely any Of them belle We 10 s
God Their most Conspicuous leader
was the other day pulled by the leg
from under bed in house of infamy.
cursing and disappearing. The police
Of Chicago, exploring the dens of the
Anarchists, found dy nsmite and viiriol
and Tom Paine's "Agc Of Resson.' and
obscene pictures, and complimentary
biographies OF thugs and assassins but
not one Testament. not one OF Wesley's
BY mn hooks. not one Roman Catholic
breviary There arStwo wings 70 In
idelity-the one calls itself Liberalism
and sppesis in highly literary magazines,
and is Tor ine e.lucsted and refined; the
other 6ing is in the form of Anarchy,
and is Tor the vulgar. But both wings
belong taihe same old filthy vuiiure, In
fidelity Elegant Inideli'y proposes to
cor quer this land to itself by the pen I;
Anarchy proposes TO conquer it By blud-
geon and torch.
When The midnight ruffians dcspoiled
The grave Of A. T Stewart In St. Marck's
cburch-yard, everybody was shocked ;
hut lnfidtlitv proposes something worse
than that-,he rohhing OF all the graves
of chris'etdom OF The hore of resur-
reetion. II proposes 10 chisel out from
The tombstones OF your Christian dead
The words, Asleep in Jesus," and SUBJ
stilu.e the words, "Ohliteration-A Ami
blstion." Infdelity proposes 10 take
tle letter from The worlds Father, invi-
ing the nstions to virtue and happiness,
and tar il up into fragments so small
that you cannot iead o word OF, it. 1t
proposes to take the roi solalicn from
tie broken-hearted, and the soothing
pillow from the dying. Infdeliy pro-
poses to swtar in The President OF the
United States, and the Supreme Court,
and the Governors of States,. and the
Witnesses in the court ROOM with their
right hand on Paine's "Age OF Reason"
or Vollaire's Philosophy of History"
Ii proposes to take away from this coun
try tbs pook hat makes The difference
between the United States and The Uni
ted Kingdom OF Dahomey, between
American civiizaiicn and Bornesian
canibali-m Ifin6delity could destroy
the Scriptures it would 10 two hundred
years tnrn the cililized nations back to