Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1890-07-10
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Potter on Pyci0F!QalSM,


offered to Pretorlans rs means of
buying power, Bishop Potter speaks
of "the unmanly silence" with
which such outrageous attacks On
the public treasury and the public
morals have BEEN received he
leaves the Infercncc that tins uuman-
Iy silence has been general. Read
ers of the R,pnLhc know better.
They know that this newspaper has
showE neither fcar nor favor in its
struggle to save the workers of the
country frora these intolerable bur
dens and to preserve the liberties of
Americans, born and unborn, from
the greatest danger that ever threat
ened the institutions of free peo-
pie.
All that one newspaper could do
this newspaper has done. And
since it put into circulation the one
word "Pretoriansm, involving In
itself, as the acorn does the oak, all
that Bishop Potter has SAID in his
parallel between our times and those
Of the sale of power in Rome in ex-
change for largess 10 the legions, it
may feel that its work has not been
| altogether Intellectual.
But 1t is true that there is much
shameful silence-or what is worse,
shameful consent. When Mr.. In
gals in the senate the other day
made one of the most shameless
speeches ever made IN modern times,
it was shameful in Senator Hawley
to first protest and then consent
more shameful still in the senator
from Indiana to consent more fully
yet in face of record which makes
manifest to the world the full meas
ure of his insincerity in pretending
to believe that it is patriotic to rot
and oppress the people.
Bishop Potter is mistaken in say.
ing that one of "the least and most
innocent consequences" of this sys-
TEN is the enormous burden it I'm.
poses on the workers of the country,
He Is mistaken because the end OF
all despotism, of all political demor.
alization, is to ''take from the
mouth of labor the bread it has
earned" Whether bayonet rule
enforces itself in open violence, OF
the even more effective methods OF
political oppression operating
through legislative enactment, it ha:
in view the same object-to take
from those who have earned, what il
has not earned. In the next -four
years, the system of Pretorlan lar
CESS and other war expenses will
take from the earners of this coun-
try billion dolIars-the equivalent
of the labor OF million men for
three years at dollar a day. The
Pretorian cohort of Rome never re-
ceived such sum in all It's sales of
the Roman purple. 1t is the most
enormous system of robbery that
despotism ever pcrpetrated in time
of peace, SIS far as the records show
to the contrary. In the mines of
Illinois and other states men are kill
ed and manned daily On the vast
systems of railroads which serve the
! convenience of our civilization.
death and manning is an ordinary
| event. Look at the next freight en-
CINE as it passes you and see if there
be not Grape on 1t or on the caboose
in token of death bravely and man
fully met in the great battle CT Ia
Dor; in the struggle for subsistence
| for bread to fiji the mouths of de-
| nendent women and little children.
Daily, hourly, these toilers in miues
on railroads, in factories, die at tdeil
posts, crashed by falling walls, by
grinding wheels or else dying more
slowly If not less surely by close
confinement in crowded rooms
breathing in death with every lnhal
alton of the mephItic air aroun'
them!
And it is from the widows and til
orphans Of these and such as thes
that this money is taken. Ihel
earnings, which under free an
Just civil government might he bus
banded to provide for their ow
when the hand of the tOiling breaC
sinner can toll no more, are take
from them by the hnndred-thousan%
/, the million and the billion because
class of military politicians deman
support at the expense of the lab'
!. of others!
:, Young women are frequently su
uoscd TO have consumption, when
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