The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-02-27
THE CAUSE OF ANARCHY.
The Fruit Which Is Gathered from the
Upas Tree of Monopol1.


Upas Tree of Monopolf.
The tremendous discontents. men
aces and dangers of the present time
are the natural issue of an erroneous,
unjust and oppressive economical sys-
tenn. The monopoly tariff and over
taxation are at the bottom of all the
evils that threaten.
We have anarchy--force, as preached
by puny agitators who live upon the
contributions of complaining wage
earners. On the other side, we have
the protected manufacture Of anarchy
privilege compounded on privilege
-bounties and monopoly piling up the
wealth of the whole people and resign
ing that wealth into fewer and fewer,
greedier and greedier hands.
We have anarchy hideous
than vice, the monster. He who goes
out to parley with it is contaminated.
He who seeks to excuse it is lost. But
anarchy is the fruit which is gathered
from the upas tree of monopoly. 1t is
logical that all the scoundrels, hot
heads, martyrs and fools of other
worlds should flock to gather tribute
from the "high wages" of America,
and it is a matter of course that, be-
ing cozened, the ire of such adventure
ers should cool only on the scaffold.
When, therefore, society tramples
on the red and black aags-when the
fomentors of bloody strife are caught
and punished-society has only healed
the ulcer; society has not destroyed
the seed of the sore. So long as there
shall be coal monopoly to freeze
widows and orphans; a Hooking VAL
ley syndicate to extirpate miners;
Standard Oil Trust to terrify dozen
States and elect Senators who desert
their own party on pecuniary ques.
tons; a copper trust to add double to
the cost; sugar trust to drive men
out of employment and into the places
of the striking car-drivers; a flour
trust; trust for every eatable, potable
and convenient-a trust of Senators
who double the price of every wooden
thing in every house and on every
human being in the Nation-so long
Anarchists will make their apparit1on.
The dragons teeth of protection must
not be sown if the armed malcontents
of anarchy be not expected to spring
out of our once blessed soil.
Why is anarchy new? Why did our
forefathers fail to see that fanatics
from European tyrannies would some
day Charm our people away from their
native orators? 1t is because our fore
fathers did not dream that statesmen
and Presidents could ever rise up to
preach that tax is blessing that a
surplus of 100000, 600 is wise con-
traction of the moneys-that tobacco
is a necessity and sugar a luxury
that man should have a seat in the
Cabinet because by tax-farming he had
amassed fortune with which to bride
electors.
These things defy reason. That
their combined wickedness, as linked
in the Mckinley platform, should gain
the popular approval, completes the
cause, the source, the fountain of an
archy. No other land is SO insane.
Hither let all criminals hurry. The
wrong is right here. Here the poor
may be robbed, for they have been
persuaded it is we'll to be despoiled.
Can Americans go on hanging vii
lains of low degree without looking
higher? Are wicked men, stepped in
scandal, swollen with plumber, to strut
before the Nation forever, fastening,
with naughty brow, the eviction of
our inhabitants and welcoming the dis
order of aliens?
These questions are here. The
Goulds on the outside and the Senator's
on the inside of official life have intro
duced novel order of things. Why
not return to the democratic ways
which made this land the envy of man
kind? Why sustain feudal system
which is fast fetching us revolution,
revolutionists and anarchy, In fact?-
Chicago Herald.