The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-02
THE REVOLUTION IS ON.
Farmers Coming With ssthe Light of
Battle In Their Faces"

II nE VO6O - OlVs
Farmers Corning With sthe Light Of
Battle in Their Faces"
The Chicago Express contains the
following editorial:
The revolution is on. raa
The hour has struck.
THE judgement is set and the books
opened" The time of the dividing the
sheep from the goats, or rather the
sheep from the wolves (what harm
have the poor goats done?) has come.
The fire shall try every mans work
of what sort it is. The wood, hay
and stubble-inferior material shall
be burnt up. The plain people of the
United States Cat least such as are not
already the whipped ours of Eastern
slaveholders), have determined that
something must be DONE
They find themselves devoured, root
and branch by a pestiferous horde of
noxious insects, individually weak,
but strong in numbers and breeding
rapidly. Hear this ye old men, and
give ear all We inhabitants of the land!
Hath this been in your day, or even in
the days of your fathers? Tell We
your children of it. and let your chill
dren tell their children, and their chill
dren another generation! That which
the palmer worm hath left hath the
locust eaten; and that which the To-
Gust hath left hath the caterpillar
eaten" a"h r7
Do the people desire to have it sop
No. There is a gathering again of all
the clans of freemen. They are not
led by beardless boyish enthusiasts,
but by middle-aged men with the
light of battle in their faces" Men
who aforetime mounted the immi-
nent deadly breach and looked down
muzzles of all sorts, from rifles to
rifled cannon.
Men not to be scared by the shouts
of the pampered predatory classes,
glutted with plumber and mad for
more. Men with the courage of their
opinions and ready to do and dare all
things for the right-for truth and
justice-home and fatherland.
Men who have read history, and
know that when nation has arrived
at such pass as ours has reached,
liberty and justice are not to be re-
gained by any boys play. Men who
have read of Lycurgus, Scion, Leonidas.
Brutus, The Gracchi, Tell, Winkleried
Cromwell The French Revolution,
Washington and John Brown.
Men whom the French Revolution
has shown that unless oppression is
stopped before it grows enormous, the
remedies then needed are almost as
terrible as the disease. Men who see
that already in this country, the Black
Death of monopoly is so widespread,
so fastened on the body polite, that
only by such severe measures as a
graduated property tax, Government
land loans and Government control of
means of transportation and cOmmu-
nication can it's ravages be stopped.
The situation is so alarming that we
must disabuse ourselves of the idea
that any remedy however slow, will
suffice. The hand that attempts to
crush the Canada thistle our pluto
cratic oligarchy, must clutch swiftly
and have an iron grasp. The strong
rich English anarchs have got practi-
cally beyond the idea of forcefuI re-
preston of the poor and needy. They
let them assemble by hundreds of
thousands in Trafalgar Square and
even plumber few shops before they
open their Gatling guns.
Dynamite fills them with despair.
But our New York oligarchic anarchs
are still cock-a-whoop with the idea
that they are masters of the stu
alton. Their thousand millionaires
are secure in the idea that all their
pet regiments of soldiers have now got
castles built for them, with four-foot
walls bast1ons, bomb-proofs loop
holes for artillery and musketry.
They tickle themselves with the idea
that under the pretence of making ele-
CANT parks they have turned Fort
Green Park, Brooklyn, Morningside
Park in New York. and other such re-
sorts into Notifications, from which
they can sweep the neighboring plains
with artillery.
Then they have the Finest police In
the world''-an immense army of jan
issaries, paid just four times what the
London police get. But what signifies
all that; the ballot and not the bullet
is what they have to fear. Much of
their fancied security comes from their
| being deceived by their lying news
papers into thinking that they are not
thieves; and that the sympathies of all
1.-The best people" of the world are with
| them.
They will soon have rude awaken
ing from this dream of peaceful spoil
alton. That most dynamical OF dyna-
mites, the ballot will soon be buzzing
about their ears like the cinders of
Vesuvius around luxurious, sinful
Pompei. 1.-The Farmers are Coming!"
Man Or Money.
IT, looks as If the r,rine issue in NIL