The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1894-09-06
CHAUTAUQUA. !
DANGER TO THE BODY POLITIC.
RY MEMBER OF CLASS A.

What CHASTITY thought it is to have before
you the certainty of a long life of suffering and
misery. To think, for instance, that you must
be forever blind; that the light of day will never
more be YOURS that if you live the age of a patri-
arch of Old you must do so in absolute darkness
The very idea is sickening, and yet how few OF
us really appreciate the Of our eyes, En-
posed to every variation of heat and cold; in
winter looking out on the frosty world with the
thermometer at twenty degrees below ZerO-ln
summer with the same mercury almost buDDnng
in heat of one hundred and fifty degrees III the
SUM- they look just as keeny and just as freely.
Naked as when we were born, and yet no"
seasoned and Injured to every vicissltude; III ny
ing dust and whirling snow equally the same.
Kind nature has undoubtedly provided Tor all
this and to tile physician it is no riddle. but TO
the laylnan what marvel! The same may pe
said of our other Senses in greater or lesser de-
gree Each of us, who is in the possession Vi
every sense has the capacity to see near 1eel'
enjoy and suffer- according to his different tastes
and environment, all that is good and bad IN ma
ture and III life.
All this unconsciously and without effort, ana
: vet deprive any one of these senses, and what
disaster comes upon the one so affllcted. IL was
a thought similar to this that inspired that
great man Who in the early days of our Republic
declared for either liberty DEATH" and 1t is
along such lines of thought that the present ten-
dpucv Of the times are diverted. When an
archy and blood march abroad through the land
and when men are killed and bombs are tnroWh'
lust to vent an insane idea based ON a wrong line
Of reasoning then it is surely time to call nalt
Under cover of the recent great strike, now tils
monster. of such recent and terrible growth. did
show his head; battered and distigured, to be
sure but still in the ring. The clubs OF the Hay
market were not forgotten, and the vigilance OF
the law-abiding strikers was sufficient TO co"
this monster temporarily; but what guarantee
have we in these troubled times that he Will mol
Of soon break all bonds and deuge the land with {
sea Of blood?
The terrible and destructive force of high eX
I'll ino - a,, ,,nnv7n to this vicious class
80 and all over the world we have evidence tina
they are not lacking in brute courage to use othe
ay deadly weapons The president of France, AM
IT, a week later an editor in Italy, both met thel
death at the point of the assasslns Knl1e
IN How long will Cleveland live? Who can say
rs Will George NJ Pullman survive the year? An
after them who? When will it end: VIVA
good Will it accomplish: The governments {
~ Europe without exception have passed. ana al
'' engaged i'll enforcing, the most stringent laws
destroy this demon. 1t has even been hed
ri crime in France to write private letter on I'll
ate subject and public trials are no longer above
anarchists We all thought the drastic measure
of Russia we're but the relics of Tartar DarDa
%" ism, but perhaps the Car and his advisers wei
' in a better position to judge OF the measures
suppress this element; for let it but once sta
SUI in this land and reign OF terror Will De lhe'
city able. High and low. rich and poor-all Will
in included. The only safe place viii be the cent
NT;r,op story a
rcr magazine.
i do not attempt to discuss this from MOI
day Wv III, 7 ,oo,, ,rico and attennt
vi argue remedy. The fact is, it is in our mid
dormant as yet. but the seed we'll sown a
two sprouted, and another strike or two and
Wis grain will be full grown and ready for the reap
heir There IS nothing new under the sum- a
History repeats ITSELF; these are two trlte a
time honored saws. but how true. In the Old
" DAYS when Rome Il republic, and long Def(
a Christ was dreamed of by the masses, we
w. the senators and aristocrats ruling with an II
hand, and see the plebeians and slaves d
ark, lower classes writhinS and chahng under Ill
had calling bonds, until. as our classmate mas
The thrillingly and ably described it, we see the
ken liant Spartans breaking away and fleeing to
mountain w,s to wage guerilla warfare
years. We see anarchy. crime and sin unutt
'no able stalking abroad through marble hall a
I'd II ., IT, o coo +,o Ponnhlic fall a Cn
the $50, ..,,o Io,nad io Tbera were strik
ner- t,,ro oro +rus+s ond labor mi,
and there were anarchists also, just as now Z
Mr.. they were as bloody-mlDded ana shallo"-pa
ady. are their cOmpatrlOts today. Ii they succe
and what? If they Kill and STAY ana hhaIy w
ance throw and terrOrize the government "hat thf
sally Are the horrors OF the French ReVolutlol
come again? Will DantOn and Robesple
send forth their edicts of death from the Cap
pond ~ MaSninotono
wful ho,,o +ho+ our rood sense and rood !,
ety im+,i,,,,,h .nd th.t all those who wave the
'ai'o flag will meet the fate adequate to the enorI
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