The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-23
PROVO CITY. APRIL %, 1894
THE GATHERING STORM.

At short intervals, ever since 1873,
there has been noticed a disposition
among the laborers to strike and often
with decided manifestations of law
lessness and disregard tor the prop
erty and interests of great corporations,
especially the railroads. At first, or
rather for the 1rst ten or fifteen years,
even the laboreTs themselves did not
understand the cause of the misery
which oppressed them. Within the
last year great light has been thrown
upon the trouble and all understand
perfectly that the underlieing trouble
has been all along too rapid les sem
ing of the volume of comeatable money
among the masses, and consequently
a too small supply to meet the condi
tions Of a commerce expanding with
wonderful rapidity demanding
greater expansion of currency rather
than lessening volume and harder
conditions. The one policy is for the
rich the other for the poor. 1t is need
less to say that in such struggle the
rich, have triumphed and the poor are
Yanouished. This cause, and this
alone has set up an irritation between
the parties to the struggle which cam
not be cured save by reversal of pol
icy and better living chance for the
wage workers of the land. They are
in vast majority, and the poor, tired
workers have grown desperate and the
still lessening chance of being able to
feed, clothe and school their children.
They have become desperate, yet, like
the law-loYing Anglo-Saxon race from
which they sprang, they are endeavor-
ing to rectify the conditions prevailing
by strong, digniied effort within the
pale Of law.
This lawful effort will continue until
hope has fed and despair has driven
its iron to the vitals of the people.
Then other scenes will be enactAa
Other efforts will be made outside the
pale of law. Blood will flow, misery
will run rampant, and ruin, anarchy
and destruction will overwhelm our
once happy land. During all the years
since demonetization occurred, and
through each national administration
the senate, congress and the admins
tration has ignored the conditions pre-
Yailing until now the storm is about to
break and the dispatches tell US that
both houses of congress begin to ex-
press the fear that they must have felt
for the last nineteen years. Ii is
hopeful sign. Their Indifference to
the distresses of the people has been
ominous to all thinking and patri
otic observers. Strikes everywhere,
not those of few men only, but
of bodies of men hundreds of thousands
strong. They are in such force that
they are able to demand and command
for that matter, attention to their
grievances.
The black wing of war is stretched
over lis. The lightning of the storm
clouds flash and dart from every
quarter of the heavens. Indeed is the
storm approaching and in an appalling
shape. Something must be done and
hat right speedily or it will soon break
IN irresistible force and then it will,
We fear, be forever impossible to avert
Jhe doom of anarchy, blood and
The government should
reflect upon the character of the men
in this still lawful and blood
ess revolution. They will exhaust :
very hope, but after that they will be +
ONE the awful engines of blood and {
estruction. The lesson of the French v
evolution is still before our eyes. Let t
S govern ourselves in the light of that q
wful bit of history and be benefited II
y it to the extent that we may return
y the shortest lines of march to the
Apply old times when the government D
as blind to the condition of the man 0
men who were engaged in the work y
building up the land, when the Is
Dor we're the full equal of the n
ch, before the authority of govern CT
ent. We say it with profound con- 81 81
ction of its entire truth, that when r. r.
yer the blood of the first victim has fs
zen poured out upon the ground the I'll
ruggle viii commence and end not ~ ~
ltil the moral fibre of this nation of in
w-ablding people will be under mob. his
W from one end oft to the other. pc
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