The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-23

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rsy VERY IGOR CANNOT Ri fhf-h-
IL is useless IA tell these l%-oiAe INC!
ar. fire.. Liberty Is 10 them iafa"s ~
nets dream. |; Is not In their ""' y"
The trouble is that tins mass OF oesi
.,bo..i and wUmanhood fall easy
victims in such hours t. the sp+n u
.,,,,,,sl madness called anarchy. An
81, observation-disclosures insanity. IL
MA IFS birth IN the prison SoInii oil the
last century. This stream oi deaui'eS'
r.o,sous has been pouring unh"r"'" my
,.sr social order for the past huh"teS'
wears. The progeny of crlm" are li's
,,,.rs for life. The hope of liberty De-
.,,,p,s y madness IL IL "A madness that
- contacluu. when brought int" CON
tact with hopeless. If Respectable, pow
artv Here hes the danger OF the threat
of anarchy. Here Is the danger point I'll
the future. The poor rankle under the
fancied or real sense of injustice Gut
of work and the victim OF despair ne
NAV 70 mad. Will we have the love
broad and deep enough 10 meet TINS Is
sue for hun IN seeing that sane ne Is
AT least made possible:
A writer in the Hartford Courant tells
us how Lord Lytton of England behaved
when such an appeal was made !" MN
A laborer on the estate of the elder bul-
wer did certain hard Job. The baliift
refused 10 pay what he demanded for the
work. The man insisted. 1 hc baillfi
discharged him and prosecuted hmm, I'M
I'll finally he drove HIM almost IA pauper
from the estate and from the neighbour
hood. He kept telling his friends that
some day he would get what was due
him from the Bulwer-Lytton estate.
When Owen Meredith came Ia the title
and was home on leave of absence as
English ambassador to France, this
laborer met him on the road one day.
You are Lord Lytton, believe" he
said respectfully.
Yes"
Then, if you please, should like you
to pay an account which has been due
me for long time"
Lord Lytton looked at the account, and
at his request the man told the whole
story. The poet was very much affected
and disturbed. Then he said:
We'll, | will do what ! can TO make it
up to you.
He was as good as his word. He built
a house at the gates of the park, put the
man and his family into it and gave it TO
them, rent free, with other perquisites.
SO that he was entirely comfortable for
the remainder of his days.
DUTY OF THE RICH.
If our powerful classes of today would
only meet the suffering and despair of
the present with something like this spir-
it, there could be but one end of every
issue-peace and fraternal helpfulness.
Third-The issue for which the larger
number struggle and the one fraught
with more serious possibilities than any
other is the right to IA tolerable existence
for the masses of the people. 1t lis a
question Of debate as to whether the con-
dition of the working masses is abso-
lutely better or worse than in the past
generation. Some affirm that the work
ing people have the best of the advance
of the civilization of this period.
But so high an authority rs E. Benja-
min Andrews, president of Brown uni
versity, declares that I'm many respects
the toiling masses are no whit better off
today than in England four centuries
ago." and that 1.-The passing of this age
of industrial advance and of worldwide
land affiliations, with SO slight gain in
the ordinary comforts of life on the part
Of the tailoring man, goes far to preclude
all hope of great improvement for him
under present economic conditions"
While it is question for debate as to
whether he has actually improved his
condition, it is no question for debate
whether the life of the rest of mankind
has advanced.
Under these circumstances the cOndi-
ton of the workingman of today is be-
coming for him more and more an intcl-
cradle one. He has learned to read and
to think. He has hundred wants and
aspirations now where he had one hun
dred years ago. What his father was
content with he will not accept. He
lives in bigger world. Forty years ago
the postoffice of Great Britain carried
$4,000, 900 newspapers. Now it carries
$50, 900, 900 annually. The total number
of papers issued in America is estimated
at 3,36S. 900, 600 annually, or "a copies for
every inhabitant. The masses of the
people now read, and this for the first
time in the history Of the world The
preacher of the past generation could
reach few hundred people a week.
The printed sermons of this pulpit reach
millions. SO in every department OF
teaching and even in greater degree.
DR. Strong i'll his recent book graphically
says: 1--WE shall not be surprised that
reading has operated as an uneuualed
stimulus upon workingmen when we re-
call how promptly it quickened the up
per classes in the sixteenth century.
This was not the only cause, but it was
one of the chief causes of that wonder.
full awakening of genius and energy
which marked the century of Shake.
speare and Bacon and Raphael and An
gelo."
The railways of 1891 carried 49,. OOO.-
600 OF passengers in the United States.
Travel has increased with reading. and
the same writer says travel and the
press have made the modern working
man cosmopolitan"
The cosmopolite is one sort of being.
The village workman of the last genera
ton was another. What was tolerable
Tor one may be the flaming issue of a
revolution for the other. The masses
are deeply and sullenly discomfort with
their present condition. They declare +,
intolerable, and they contend for such a
a reorganization as will make it toler.
able They do not believe it lust for
one man to receive $40 and 299 men 10
cents each in the distribution of the
worlds goods. Thousands of the,.. be.
heye their very lives are at stake.
WHERE GOyERNMENr FAILS.
The ultimate seat of our present gov
eminent is with the sheriff and his POSSE
dis ability to handle the posse dcnends
on the feeling of the posse. The rGyern'
ment failed utterly at Homestead. The
posse was on the other side,
at nJ1n