The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-10-08

sale invitition 70 the convic.s and oAcastsI
Of every Epsopean nation; men who have
no sympathy with our government or our
selves, who do not even know our language, ]
- 3ho,eoms to America to break down
Nd not 70 build pp, These are the men
who have sown the seed that bring forth
strikes riots and communism For
example take the city of Chicago, the late
scene Of such fearful strikes and riots. Ac-
oerding to p recent census it's nationali.ies
are: Gsrmep, 10000; American, 1884,
900; Scandinavia, $4,000; Irish, 120, 900;
Slavonic, $1,000; English, 10000; Latin,
10000; Negroes, 5000; Canadian, 1000,
and all others, 5000, making total popu-
lation Of 650,OOO. In other words, the
Americans are in minority Of 347 900,
or as the New Orleans Times puts it, Chi
cago is more Irish than any city in ireland
save Dublin and Belfast, and more German
than Munich, Dresden or Cologne Chi
cago for all these disgraceful scenes takes
the lead of any Northern or Western city,
'snd I believe il is mainly due to her foreign
and discordant population. Four-ffths Of
those arrested in the recent riots could not
speak our language and did not know our
form of government. Tell me that such
men make good Ioitisens, being naturalized
% sOoh As they touch che soilnud breathe
the air of our generous Republic I can
not believe it. I am free trader in all
else save human flesh, and do believe that
while the population in our country would
not increase quite so fast, our country would
be placed upon more solid basis of pros
perity If every new conner were required
to bring testimonials from his government,
and had to pay an impost duty, as it were,
before he could land.
SPECULATION.
I think much Of this unrest can be
charged too to the spectators in Wall
street, and the fact that our government
openly countenances their robberies. Do
not understand me to say that 1 am in IA
yor of limiting the right or privilege Of
acquiring properly; by no means, that
would be to strike blow at one of the
fundamental principles of our government
the right Of private property.
& 1t is the right of any man to make as
much money as he can, and to do with his
own what he will, but it must be made hon.
estly, without extortion or bribery. He
must not ride into wealth by crushing re-
morselessly the weak who come within his
clutches. Tho enormous fortunes acquired
in this mann have much to do with the
spirit Of envy and jealousy that is abroad
throughout the North. e.g. 1t is known
principle of political economy and a uni
versal maxim, that in all departments of
trade aud commerce Supply and Demand
regulate Prices. Notwithstanding this
principle, in bold defiance of all precedent
and principle, the Bulls and Bears of Wall
street initiate or depress prices to suit their
own stupenduous speculations.
Take cotton, the principle product of the
South. We can, with reasonable certainty
tell the number Of bales that will be made,
know the exact number of spindles in the
world, the consumption and demand, and
yet, with oil this knowledge, we predict in
vain as to the price. 1t seems to me there
is something radically wrong in this-an
of fundamental principles,
and most of the great fortunes of the North
are made in this way. Honest labor is
absolutely helpless, and bold, unprincipled
speculators dictatorial masters of the situa.
tion. The toiling laborer who earns his
daily bread in the sweat of bis brow and
ignorant of these manipulated swindles, is
the one who suffers. Can this be Iight2
Jay Gould has more absolute power, and
is to-day greater tyrant over his &C, 900
employees than was ever monarch of Me-
dieval Europe. These colossal fortunes
enter even our Congressional halls and to q
certain extent control legislation, until it
seems they menace our very government.
How shall they be controlled and regulatedY
Young man Of the twentieth century,
answer. This labor trouble has, as yet,
been little felt in the South, for the reas
ons that we have no such colossal fortunes,
nor are we trouble with the influx of mixed
immigration but we arc confronted with
the still more complicated question,