The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1894-02-24
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When anarchy turks in Shiny slleys |
and throws its bombs with senseless
ana meaningless spleen against it
knows not what, il is merely Que more
added to the innumerable dangers that
beset all men at all times. A tile or
brick may fall Upon the passer; ve-
hlcle may run over him; mad dog
may attack him; dynamite bomb
may explode. The fabric of society
and the solid walls of long-established
usage stand in but little danger from
the mad acts of diseased and half
crazed beings, drunk with whiskey,
absinthe or opium, aud sucking in
moral poison from the moment of their
vile birth. The wretch is seized, tried
and executed, raving wildly of his sup
positions wrongs, aud leaving heri-
tsge of imitation to some other half.
formed and perverted intellect. and the
hideous farce Ia re-enacted indefinitely
with no result but the reproduction of
its own detestable details. But when
an army of five thousand starving men
rise up and batter in desperation at
the doors of legislation, and with grim
threats and terrible calm demand their
right to live, II looks ugly.
Tho way of dynamite is not the
American way, nor the Anglo-Ssxon
way. When an outrage of this nature
is committed on British or American
soil 1t is almost certain TO be the work
of foreigner, generally German,
Russian, Frenchman or mougrel pro-
duct of these nations. The way pur-
sued by the Boston mob, however, is
full Of deadly Significance If tho oc-
currence bad taken place even in Eng
land 1t would have been easy to say
that 1t was the result of congestion
Of population, and to glibly prescribe
emigration as the cure; but here
here In a land that boasts its mighty
wealth aud inexhaustibe resources
that stretches out welcoming arms to
eli the oppressed Of the earth-whai
eau 1t mean? The demonstration was
suppressed for the time by force oi
arms. Even In the desperation OF starv.
ing an American mob respects the law
but tiger kept In subjeotion by red
I hot steel is a fearful plaything. Wher
: the starving French peasants asked fol
bread they were told to eat grass
They drank blood instead. II is moi
J probable that the French revolution
will be re-enacted In America, bu
these signs are ominous. They eth,
mutterlng of thunder and the frowu o
8 gathering storm clouds. Such affair
Q as that at Boston are not to be light!
: viewed Ghd set aside with half col
: = unn of vague newspaper comment
J. while the comparative trivialitics o
Y Hawaiian affairs and the squabbles o
0 ephcmeral politicians make up the owl
!. ish deliberations of press and party
q Not the times, but tho relations of man
l. kind and the civilization Of the worl'
are out of joint. The qusrrels Of fac
: tions, the paltry self-secking Of poll
. tics, aud the pompous impotence 9
% Legislation are but the cotton that stuff
G the ears of nations to a coming storI
:, that threatens TO sweep away existin
:, orders like dead leaves before th
whirlwind. Pompadour went sleigh
70 riding over salt and sugar IN the sun
20 mer time, while the peasants ate th
y bark of trees and drank the water I
as bitches. The gilded butterflies of TT
ID anon frisked through childish pastim'
while the councils of the nation wei
deciding the cut of the kings coat I
the curl of his wig, and tho peop
D, starved 10 death by hundreds on Il
roadsldes. History told the sequt
ie aud the world shudders yet st Il
e. grim recital.