The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-09
PROVO CITY. April
THE RISING OF THE PEOPLE.

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The French revolution commenced
just as the one is commencing now
which we will be compelled to face in
the near future. A few men in Lyons
and Marseilles banded together to
march to Paris to redress the wrongs
inflicted by the Bourbons and their
gorged AMI petted favorites, into whose
hands had drifted all the money, honors
and privileges which had been filched
from the people in the two last GEN.
turies just preceding. The govern
ment, the king and aristocrats laughed
the exhibition Of the displeasure of the
people to scorn, Instead of adopting
measures of relief they jeered at and
Knocked them, making broad dirty
jests of their distresses. Two years from
that day the government was over
thrown, the king was beheaded with
several members of the royal family
and huge number of these same rich
and mocking aristocrats, Blood of the
best of the French people flowed la
every part of the kingdom. What was
then possible in France is eminently
possible in the United States today.
Even at that day there was found in
Europe many nations which, for poll
tical reasons, sympathized with the
people. In our case there would be
the sympathy, not real, of all despotic
European governments, not that they
cared more for the revolutiOnists but
that they would second any movement
likely to disrupt the hated republican
form of government which prevails
here. Let this war start and maintain
itself for three months and for the
reasons given above, it would be be-
yond the control Of any force the gov
eminent could project against it.
So many thousands of angry, dis
satisfied and hungry men banded to-
gether for any purpose is dangerous
circumstance. Brute force is one way
to meet it. Graceful concession is an
other and we believe the best. Some
thing is wrong, radically wrong in the
policy of the government which has
caused the distresses out of which
these industrial armies are grown.
Find that evil, find the wrong and
right 1t and that too, by real reform,
not by some makeshift matter like all
the measures resorted TO since the
first great sin against the people
was committed in 1873. Shoddy means
have been tried. They have been
proven Inadequate. Let us have some
thing real.s Let us cut loose from the
European idea. Let US run our COM
merce, our finances and our business
without reference to them and the
prosperity which reigned before we
went into these entangling alliances
with them will return to us again.
Let the people reign. Let US refuse
longer to follow Rothschilds, Lombard
street or the German Shylocks and the
people will grow quiet again. Follow
these malign advisors further and the
dreadful scenes of the French reyolu.
tion Will be repeated here. From all
points of the compass are these armies
marching, converging at Washington.
There is danger underlying any cause
which produces effects like these. We
laugh now as did Louis the 10th. Let |
us beware or we will certainly mourn
as he did later on. '
Pass a real tariff reform bill and re-
monetize silver and these distresses
will dissolve or fly away as do the
clouds of the morning before the ad-
vancing king of day. Give the poor a
chance. Lift the burdens of taxation
from their shoulders and place it upon
those Of the rich, is all that is necessary
to reduce all this threatening hostility
will be quickly reduced to absolute and
perfect loyalty,