The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-23
The CAUSE OF ANARCHY.
khe Fruit which Is Gathered from the
Cpas Tree OF Monopoly.

The CAUSE OF ANARCHY.
tbe Fruit which Is Gathered from the
Cpas Tree OF Monopoly.
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 eanarchy---force, as preached
by puny agitators who live upon the
contributions Of complaining wage
earners. On the other side, we haye
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-more hideous
than vice, the monster. He who goes
out to parley with it is contaminated.
He who seeks to excuse 1t 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 1t is matter of course that, be-
ing cozened, the ire OF such adventur-
ers should cool only on the scaffold.
When, therefore, society tramples
on the red and black flags-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 a coal monopoly to freeze
widows and orphans; Hooking VAL
ley syndicate to extirpate miners; u
Standard Oil Trust to terrify a dozen
States and elect Senators who desert
their own party on pecuniary ques.
lions; q copper trust to add double to
the cost; a sugar trust to drive men
out of employment and into the places
of the striking car-drivers; a flour
trust; Il trust for every eatable, potable
and convenient-a trust of Senators
who double the price of every woolen
thing in every house and on every
human being in the Nation-so long
Anarchists will make their apparition.
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
native orators? 1t is because our fore
fathers did not dream that statesmen
and Presidents could ever rise up to
preach that a tax is q blessing-that a
surplus of $500, 900, 900 is a wise con-
traction of the moneys-that tobacco
is necessity and sugar a luxury
that man should have seat in the
Cabinet because by tax-farming he had
amassed fortune with which to bribe
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 viii
lains of low degree without looking
higher? Are wicked men, stepped in
swollen with plumber, to strut |
before the Nation forever, Fastening,
with naughty brow, the eviction of
our inhabitants and welcoming the dis
order of aliensp
These questions are here. The
Ioulds on the outside and the Senators
IN the inside of official life have intro
luced a novel order of things Why |
lot return to the democratic ways
which made this land the envy of man.
,ind? Why sustain feudal system
which is fast fetching us revolution,
evolutionists and anarchy, IN fact?-
chicago Herald.