Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-22
signs of the Times and Progress of the
Revolution.

signs of the Times and Progress of the
Revolution.
To ne Elp0r Of TIE Register.
SIR:-The revolution against the con
stitutiOn begun in 1860, rs all great moving
bodies progresses with u greater rapid
II as IL nears its perihelion. The
tendency to Capitalization is very great
and distinctly marked look where
We may. The people seem to be wholly
unconscious of what they are doing, or it
may be they are acting more wisely than
am thinking. They may be impelled on
ward as Caesar when he crossed the Rubi-
con, by an OverpOwering necessity. The
only difference between imperial power
vested in one man called Emperor
or Car, or in the Government
called by us the Congress, is
in the name. The substance of imperial
power is the same whether in one man or
in a body of men, called by us the Congress,
and when a Congress has the power of per
petuatng its majority then the Congress is
exercising imperial power in its worse
form, is emperor with the power 10 appoint
u successor. The Senate of Rome had as
sumed all power, and a Caesar became u
necessity, to curb the storms of popular
revolutions and conflicts and give TO Rome
some Of its lost liberty, and when our Con-
gress shall have enacted the Federal Elec-
ton law. called the force bill' a Caesar
will become a necessity TO emancipate the
people, and as soon as that necessity comes
il will bring Caesar with il.
If 10 be true that the Northern people
have become so turbulent that the strife
between labor and capital has assumed or
is taking such form as to endanger life,
capital and property, then the necessity for
a Caesar is not far away and he may be
now in the cradle or at some county school.
That there is "A great party in the North to-
day in favor of an empire cannot be doubt
ed; that Speaker Reed is the ROberspiere
of the movement is equal clear; that In
gals is the St Just of the faction is GER
tain, and equally certain is il that the grand
man Blaine, wearied and disguised with
the JacObins, is now the Danton of the rev
olutiOn, soon 20 be bounded and perhaps de-
stroyed by our Roberspiere Reed, our Mu-
rat HOar, is manifest 10 all who think.
That these JacObinS have a great following
by the unthinking many is alarming
But say the tendency of the American
mind is to-day towards the Empire At the
head of this revolution are the great money
lords, the manufacturers, bond holders,
bankers, usurers, the whisky and railroad
kings, trust associations and combinations,
and great combinations with Speaker Reed
for their manager, and ingalls,, Lodge and
Hoar to lead the people into the trap; the
first Reed, the ROberspiere of the revolu-
ton, doing the will of his masters, the rail
roads, who have bought this place for him.
This tendency to Empire manifests itself
everywhere. Look where we may, and
there it stands like Satan tempting us on
20 shade and rest from the stormy fields
where alone liberty can live.
There is one set of people demanding
that the Government issue all the money,
buy and store away all the gold and silver,
and issue certificates for ii. TO be lawful
money Another set demand that the
Government regulate railroad frcights and
charges; this has been done. Another set
is demanding that the Government shall
own the railroad and telegraph lines; and
another that the Government shall store
away the crops of the farmers and issue
money certificates for it, Another would
have the Government become a mammoth
loan agent to issue and lend money TO the
people, and what other forms of centraliza-
ton shall develop no one can foresee.
What is all this but socialism in its most
dangerous form. Another would have the
tariff so high as to destroy foreign COM
MERGE and cut us off from the world of
commerce and exchange, bringing here
millions of Europeans to do our manufac-
turing and giving our towns and cities TO
the control of foreigners.
Against all or much of this quackery, |
the people are beginning to form comblna- /
tiOns Just as centralzing IN their tenden- !
cies as the other They form labor organ |
izations. they were forced to it; and they |
straightway appoint grand master, as II |
happens very worthy man, with powers |
absolute and imperial-a little Caesar; Inc |
soldiers form combinations called the |
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festation of u universal tendency to the |
Capitalization of power, to Imperialism
perhaps growing from an overpoWering |
necessity.
And now comes up a faction in Congress |
calling itself the Republican party, and /
pass a law about which the Senate is now |
hesitating and trembling as was Caesar |
lust before he pressed his horse and his !
iegions into the Rubicon. Yea, now comes |
this faction, with its Roberspiere and 81. |
Just and Danton, to protest and enact this
election law which puts 1t absolutely IN the |
power of our Federal Circuit Courts, |
through their appOntees, to name every |
man who shall take his seat in Congress, |
lot tbe people vote for whom they may; to |
make the people mere instruments 10 /
give them an opportunity 10 appoint |
for them vote as
they NAV. They say the object OF |
mis- law is to give the negroes of the |
south the control of the Southern States. |
II is not true. Their real object Is 10 gre nc I
.JacobinS the control Of the elections an INC !
lycaf states and cities Of the North.
When this bill becomes law the huOl-
con will be past and then will come one oil
the most terrible revolutions IN history. |
Who can predict the end thereof.
But this same faction, heartless, needless
and nossessed of one idea as revolutionary |
rs insane and dangerous, has done one OF |
the most senseless, daring and terrible |
things in the world crimes and the wrongs |
Of man to his fellow man. They have pass
ed a bankrupt bill which provides, among
other things, that every man who owes SoO
M more and does not pay 1t in six months
after demand, that every one against
whom judgement is rendered, II
he fails to pay it in the time
reouired by law, that is to q months; that
any one who makes deed, however non,
EST his purpose, for the benefit OF VIE ana
children. or TO secure creditor, II sucn
deed is by the Court of the State declared
n constructive fraud, that is preludlcial 10
some creditor shall be declared bank
rnnt his property taken from him by the
l. = Marshal and sold TO the highest old-
der. his body dragged before the Court,
and he there to answer any and every ques-
ton. TO make discovery Of every dollar he
has or that is due him, on pain OF lmprlson-
nent sc &c. and then turned out TO