The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-08
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
ANARCHY Or A CAR.

BENJAMIN Harrison IN Indianapolis,
Sept. 10, 1888 declared, in speech,
that republic could not live
whose wage-earners Were left With
out some upward avenue OF
hope; that when their star goes out 1t
must be Anarchy or car. That IS
true. But the hope Of The wage-earnef
is in such equitable laws and benign
government as shall guaranty an even
chance TO each, and insure prosperity Tor
all.
Socialism leads to Anarchy and An
Rrchy begets imperialism. The Populist
marty inculcates Socialism even to the
extent of demanding that women shall
participate in public life. PopulIstlc
teachings inspired the organization and
the march Of the industrial armies and
Populist sentiment precipirated the revo-
luton called the sympathetic strike
which is now convulsing the country
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific. Debs
Is Popuiist and since the Inauguration
of his boycott and his high-handed usur-
patton. he has been formally solicited to
permit the use of his name as the
Populist candidate for president
in 1896. AIobs are the logical Sc
uuent of SOcialistic sentiment, and
mobs know no law. nor recognize any
legal obligation except as It IS rendered
superior 10 their bombs and incendlary
torches by the bloody arm OF military
offensivene5s. As socialism leads to I'M
perialism it becomes a menace to any
government of, for and by the people,
therefore in so far as the POpulistlc
party teaches socialism, upholds mobs
and incites incendiarism, that party be-
comes antagonistic to the genius and
spirit of American institutions. Gov
ernor Waite. as Populist and socialist,
has extended aid and comfort to the de-
fiers of law; so has the anarchist Altgeld,
governor of Illinois. The Populist gov
ernor of Kansas publicly, through the
press, expressed his sympathy for a
strike and boycott in which the leaders
proclaim there WAS no grievance upon
the part Of the interests or the men they
comparatively few individuals the rea
condolences of whose demands has not
as vet even been determined, save by
one Debs, who, as head of an organiZa
ton that is unrecogniZed by law, asserts
his superiority to all law in defying the
mandates of the courts and the express
commands of the governments civil
officers and even of its recognized head
and chief executive.
Coxeyism, Debism and Populism are
of piece. Strikes, in being incipient re-
bellions, become revolutions and anarchy
when strong enough TO ignore civil Off
GERS and to defy their legal processes.
The proposition being self evident ad
mits of no argument. Federal authority
and state and municipal laws must be
respected and obeyed or all loyalty is at
an end. Debism must down the copsti-
tuted authority of the land or otherwise
its adherents must go down. Socialism
and Republicanism cannot rule at the
same time and place. Whatever of
opportunity for good there may be in
pTpdDlZ6u idDOE-dflu we DeileNe Iileli 10
be many and great-"blood up to the
bride bits Waite" Coxey vagabondage
and mob scoundrelism under Debs are
not among them. They are all bad.
Labor has its rights and they
are fundamental, and one of them
is the right TO quit work, but the right
to make anybody else quit is not anoth-
or. The force of numbers cannot change
the moral and legal quality of an act.
Debs flag is not so much for the Ameri-
can Railway union as it is against public
interests. Law cannot fix the value of
labor any more than it can the price of
a commodity, and the whole power of
this government couldn't force Pullman
10 pay more for The building of his cars
than the car would he worth if built by
somebody else. This, however, is Pop
ulistie dogma, whether applied to
money, labor or the products of labor.
Down with Debism and with every
form of anarchistic socialism.
WHO ARE TIE FIRE-BUGS.