The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-12


is the reason Blaine has been twice do
feated. Nh
LITERATURE AND THE TRUSTS.
There Is no calculating the lnnusnce that foreign
books have exerted In engcndering In America a
wicked and dangerous hatred Of the prosperous by
the unprospcrous. Of The rich by the poor. OF the
landlord by the tonant OF tho employer by the en-
ployed Cunning aud insidious pictures Of foreign
life drawn In the praise OF social revolt and TO fur
Their schemes OF treason arc the stock In trade oil
novclists poets aud socaIled philosophers whose
books are smothering American literature and In
flaming the imaglnatlops and tho hearts OF both
our foreign aud our native poor. This makes these
unfortunate people finder for the fire OF anarchy.
Let mo educate tho worklngmen and working
women Of any country and Will control the des'
tiny Of that country. Sooner or later II wish,
will change the form OF It's government ] VIII
oyc-turn It's most sacred Institutions and wipe out
It's religion as with a sponge. The missionary
literature Of anarchy came Into our country ahead
Of the agltato themselves and was boldly indofsed
by rs. We called II the literature OF freedom; but
In fact II and II Is the literature OF destruction,
the II eraturc OF treason and OF death. The poor
suffer a great deal. but he who teaches them 10
haio the rich IA the worst enemy they can have.
ious aud treacherous way. lie who has not must
be forever dependent on him who has between tho
two there must not be war, but there must be
peace and mutual confidence. II IA the duty OF
government 10 promote. IN every proper way, this
peace aud mutual confidence. The wloliedest book
ever written IL the book which insldionsiy cor
rupts the hearts OF the poor by nnuendo against the
rich, or by magnlfying the difficulties In the path
OF labor while misropresentng the attitude OF those
who pay for labor.-Ma,Ticc Thompson. In The hide
pendent.
Mr.. Thompson who is usually careful
writer seems here TO have written at ran
dom. The literature OF which he COM
plains has not gone TO the masses but 10
the moro cultured people who can inter-
est themselves in the details Of foreign
life made 30 hideously beastly and dcgrad-
ing for the working classes by the exactions
OF the governing classes. For these every
thinking American citizen must, IL he up
preciatcs his own surroundings OF indie
pendence, have sympathy, and that SYM
pathy will be as large and generous rs
the difference that separates the
average American from let us say the
average Russian. IL Mr. Thompson VIII
look deeper than the surface OF things he
will not be long in realizing that anarchy
does not exist without cause. Disease
does not spring from nothing' IL mas i'S
~
beginnings ana Degetung' nom hithy sur
rouhdineS' IN the Impoverished pioou oil
the subject, and IN bad habits the result oil
ignorance sow''h 'he diseases Oh the ooay
polite. Every outbreak In Russia Is the
result oil the reppsslons oil government
that represents mo iinality OF irrcspon'
sible one-man power The rat when cor
nered lies al MS purSuer' Inc poor peas
ant when, pursued like the rat ne secs no
escape and resolvesto sell his lie as dearly
MS possible is SIMPLY opcying inc i'rst law
oil nature seli-preserVation' Inc h'era-
turo OF that class in almost every nation IN
the world Is the literature oil woe ana
heartbreak. IL Is inc literature OF
Tolstoi, and II WIS tho literature oil
those VINO IN HIS dsy most nearly touchcd
tho Christ and TO. them, and those who
have followed In their footsteps oil suner'
ing and despair, down through all The cen
tufies since, iie has Dccn inc ohiy nope