St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-07

crashing the cart-wheel against carriage.
The philosophy of the whole business is,
that 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 possession of
large resources The honest laboring
classes never had anything to do with such
murderOus enterprises. 1t Is the villainous
classes, who would not work If they had
plenty of work offered them at large wages.
Many of these suppose that by the demOli-
ton of law and order they would be adj
vantaged, and the parting of
THE SHIP OF STATE
would allow them, as wreckers, to carry off
the cargo. 1t offers its hand to this fair re-
public. 1t proposes to tear to pieces the
ballot box, the legislative hall, the con-
gressional 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.
Nihilism! This panther having prowled
across other lands has set its paws on our
soil, and it is only waiting for the time in
which to spring upon its prey. 1t was
nihiliSm that massacred the heroic police
men 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 black people in our
Northern cities during the war; it was nj
hllism that again and again, in San Fran
cisco and New York, mauled to death the
Chinese; it is nihilism that glares out of the
drunkeries upon sober people as they go
by. All! its power has never yet been
tested. 1t would, if it had the power,
al, Irol oho
house, college and home in ashes. Let me
say, it is the worst enemy of the laboring
classes in the country. The honest cry for
reform lifted by the oppressed laboring
man is drowned out by the vociferationS
for anarchy. The criminals and the vaga-
bonds who range through our cities talking
about their rights, when their first right is
the penitentiary-if they could be hushed
up, and the
DoWN-TRODDEN LABoRING MEN
of this country could be heard, there would
be more bread for hungry children. In
any wages for the people or gathered up
any prosperity. In this land the best
weapon is not the club, not the shillaleh,
not fire arms but the ballot. Let not our
oppressed laboring men be beguiled to COM
ing under the bloody banner of nihilism.
1t will make your taxes heavier, your
wages smaller, your table scantier, your
children hungrier, your suffering greater.
Y ct this nihiliSm, with feet red of slaughter,
comes forth and offers its hand for the re-
public. Shall the banns be proclaimed? If so
where shall the marriage altar be? and who
will be the officiating priest? And what
will be the music? That altar will have to
be white with bleached skulls, the officiat-
ing priest must be dripping assassin, the
music must be the smothered groanS
of multitudinous victims, the garlands
must be twisted of nightshade, the
fruit must be apples of Sodom, the wine
must be the blood of st. Bartholomew
massacre. No! 1t is not to nihilism, the
sanguinital monster, that this land is to be
married. Another sutton for the hand of
this nation is infidelity. Mark you that all
anarchists are infidels. Not one of them
believes in the Bible, and very rarely any
of them believe in God. Their most
CONSPICUOUS LEADER
was the other day pulled by the leg from
under bed in a house of lnfamy, cursing
and blaspheming. The police at Chicago,
exploring the dens of the anarchists, found
dynamite and vitriol and Tom Paine's Age
of Reason, and obscene pictures, and COM
pllmentary biographies OF thugs and aSSas-
sins; but not one Testament. not one of
Wesley's hymn books, not one Roman
Catholic breviary. There are two wings to
infidelity-the one calls itself liberalism and
appears in highly literary magazines. and
is for the educated and refined; the other
wing is in the form of anarchy, and is for
the vulgar. But both wings belong to the
same old filthy vulture, infidelity! Elegant
infidelity proposes to conquer this land to
itself by the pen; anarchy proposes to con-
quer it by bludgeon and torch. The only
impulse in the right direction that this
world has ever had has come from the
Bible. 1t was the mother of Roman law
and of healthful jurisprudence. That book
has been the author of all reforms and all
charities-mother of English Magma Charta
and American Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin Franklin, holding that holy book
in his hand, stood before an intidel club at
Paris and read to them out of the prophe-
cies of Habakkuk, and the intidels, not
knowing what book 1t was, declared it was
the best poetry they had ever heard. That
book brought George Washington down on
his knees in the snow at Valley Forge, and
led the dying prince consort to ask some
one to sing Rock of Ages :"