The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-23
RrnoINo WORDS OF TRUTH.

Rev. Howard Crosby IA North Amer
an Review Ten Years Ago.
These power-unlts of wealth gather
about them clientele of faithful. be-
cause we'll paid. dependents. who
speak, write and act for them as oc-
casion demands, and who by their wit
and effrontery manage to guide much
of public opinion in behalf of their
masters.
Some of these dependents are ed
itors Of influential journals. who skill
fully make the worse the better reason
and call evil good, so that honest
minded readers are found to be SYM
pathising with the unfortunate capital
ist against whom the wicked proletar-
lat says such hard things.
But this state of things can not al
ways continue.
The sense of oppression on the part
OF the people at large becomes deeper
and stronger.
They begin to learn that their re-
form leaders are bought up by the
money power, and that the so-called
reforms are but tubs from the whale.
They see that only violent measures
can relieve them and a common feel
ing OF revenge unites them.
Now comes the catastrophe.
At the first stroke they find them :
selves power, and when men first
discover their power they are reckless
how they use it.
They carry destruction on every
side.
They re vel in slaughter. ~
They aste property.
They burn dwellings.
They overturn all institutions.
They paralyze trade.
They annihilate society.
The tyranny of the moneyed units
has accomplished what nothing but
tyranny can accomplish-the united
action of heterogeneous and natur-
ally unorganized populace.
1t has raised spirit of evil which
it cannot allay.
1t has unclaimed the tiger and
whetted his appetite for blood.
These must not be considered as
exaggerated prophecies.
History shows that we are sober in
our statements.
The community cannot be plundered
forever; combinations of capitalists
and legislators to rob the poor for the
benefit of the rich will eventually
meet with counter combinations which
will not confne themselves to robbery.
This is human nature as we'll as his
tory.
The present peril of our country is
exactly here.
The dangerous classes among us
are those who are engaged in amass-
ing colossal fortunes-the giants who
trod ordinary men under their heel,
and care not how much the people
suffer.
They are absorbed with their own
greatness, lifted by their wealth out
OF all sympathy with the mass of man
kind, and live as it the word belonged
to them.
The cries of want and sorrow are
unheeded by them, the appeals of
charity and benevolence are spurned,
the demand for cooperation in works
for the public veal is slighted-while
all their millions are poured into the
channels Of their own selfishness.
In monarchical countries, so long as
the people can find living, they will
endure the oppression; but in re-
public like ours the time of account
will come sooner.
Here the people will not wait until
they are ruined. They have some
notions of rights, and some fore
thought OF impending evil, and they
will anticipate their own crisis by
making crisis for others.
How is this catastrophe to be
avoided?
The answer is simple.
The dangerous classes must be rend-
cred harmless.
But how can this be done?
Only by righteous laws, righteously
administered.
The first thing. then. for the safety
OF our country is the election of
honest and upright men to Office.
Chicago Sentinel.