The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Anarchistic Tendencies.

1t begins To look as il anarchy and
disquiet had transferred themselves
from the old world 10 the new. Ger
tainly we have here in this country at
the present time evidence enough OF
lawlessness TO awaken shame and alarm
in the minds of all thoughtful men. We
see whole communities in different parts
of the country subjected to the domino
ton of mobs Laws, sheriffs, troops,
are set at defiance by bodies of men
armed with Winchesters. We see them
abusing, beating and killing innocent
men, destroying property, and threat
ening slaughter and destruction, until
whole sections of country are terror
lied. Great numbers of men in many
places are refusing to work, except on
conditions which they prescribe, and
forcibly prevent the assumption OF la
Dor by others in their places. In two
states, at least, where these anarchist
strikes prevail, the governors them
selves are daubed with the same stick
as the rioters If Governors Altgeld and
Waite are not socialists and anarchists,
it would be difficult to place them; and
it is to the shame of the American peo-
pie to suffer men TO succeed to high
office by pandering to the worst ele-
ments of society; to the element which
can scarcely be controlled in those
countries where the bayonet governs.
This open, defiant lawlessness must be
suppressed; but how, If we elect men 10
power who sympathize with it?
There landed on our shores in 1898
half million of immigrants. These were
not, as were the immigrants of earlier
days, thrifty, industrious people from
Great Britain and Germany, but they
were largely dangerous elements-the
worst of the old world; the most diff
cult to manage anywhere, and certainly
of Il class that neCer should be incorpo
rated here. Tho are, except small
fraction, Poles, Bohemians, Russians,
Austrians and Italians people who
come here, not on account of our free
They bring with them all their preju-
dices and hatred against law and prop
erty and prosperity which they have
inherited through generations of tyr
amy and degradation; and, arriving
here, they speedily find their power for
evil infitely augmented through the
power which the ballot confers upon
them. Politicians pander to these ele
ments, to these disorganizing senu-
ments-hatred of employers, of capital,
of protection by law,-for the sake of
votes, of office. And SO, through the
conniving and sympathy of executives
and high officials and local cowardice,
the law-defying element is becoming an
alarming power in the land. In all our
large cities and mining and manufac
turing districts, this foreign labor ele
ment is coming TO exert a baleful, con
trolling influence
Still there is Il preponderance of con
sentative force in this country, and the
bulk of it is in the country districts,
with the farmers. The farmers of this !
country, the men who own their farms,
aud pay their taxes and educate their
children, are not found among the
property haters, among those who are
no respecters of the rights of persons or
property; who would fix wages without
regard 10 the conditions of industry or
who would uphold any class of laborers
in forcibly preventing others from work
ing and employers from hiring them.
These men, this anarchial labor ele-
ment, would confiscate property to
save themselves from privation; but
they must be brought into subsection
and held in order 10y the vast farming
vote The farmers of this country,
when properly awakened, constitute
the best conservative power of the
Nation.