Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-05-17
WHICH SHALL IT BE?

Virginia, the Trainer Of the Viii
son Tariff Bill which so promptly
passed the House and has soiong
engaged the attention OF the
ena tie, passed through Char
lotte the other day on his return
from Mexico and New Orleans,
much improved in health, we are
glad to see recorded. He is re
ported to have said that he does
not believe that there will be an
other tariff agitation, after the
present one is over, for at least
four years.
This seems to be a sensible
view. AS the Richmond State
says the country would be blessed
if it could be spared further agi-
tation on this subject after the
present agitation is over. We
fear, however, that Chairman
Wilson is over sanguine on this
point. There is strong reason
to believe that the Republican
party will agitate the tariff even
after Congress settles it, but the
Republican party, must bear the
blame for such agitation. The
mission of the Democratic party
is to settle it at once. But when
it is settled, we have reason for
the belief that the party that
does undertake to reopen the
subject will do so against the
popular will and viii receive a
rebuff from the people.
This country has had enough
of agitation Of all kinds. It is
surfeited with it, from Coxey up
and down. After the ferment
comes good wine, but continual
ferment brings vinegar and sour
wine. The time has now come
to stop the ferment. 1t is hurting
every class of industry. 1t has
brought up scum Of every kind
and it's exhalations are be
coming poisonous.
Anarchism and its younger
brother Socialism, the red flag
of the murderous Hun, who is
the Goth Of the United States.
with all the savage and rapine
instincts of the early enemy OF
an early civilization, are among
the fouEomened spectres lower
ing in the rank exhudation, while
the damning stench~of this hell's
broth for which Most has the
spoon and the devil furnishes the
materials, poisons all classes OF
the country. 1t gives promise o1
the carrion deafness filing the
country for the repast Of those
vultures whose life is in dea*4-
and whose happiness is in car
rion. Their patriotism amounts
to that.
This is not upon US, but it car
be the fruit of the vortex Of agi
tation, the unrest due not as
much to hard times as to the
specious wiIes Of self-seekers who
prod misfortune and goad it into
excuses. We have q bad element
in our population. Americas
w~ide-open gates have admitted
foreign assassins, foreign plot
tiers, lazy dreamers, active foment
ers of discord, herds of Huns
who after swill-time are ready
for arson, murder and plumber
The suggestion of property
rights to this tribe is maddening'
But while these are hostile
and hateful elements of III pop
ulation, they IRE un-Americal
elements. They are a few thou
sand in a population of man,
millions. Shall they rule US Q.
shall we rule them /? American
decency and American conserva
tism have but one answer tx
the question. This republic wa
founded by gritty men, as jus
as they We're brave. It's glor!
is the result of American idea
as put in force by Americans. [
we wish to be Americans w
must stand by what has made
great and prosperous. We mus
cast off, with all the scorn Of tn,
sturdy founders of our govern
ment, whatsoever is un-Ameri
can.
Three-fourths of the hurtf
agitation of to-day, the agitation
which Expresses the home am
the workshop, which puts in
cumbrances on the railroads AM
shreds the sails of our commerce
is of European extraction. Pop
ulism, SO called, is based upol
. the Russian anarchist idea Of di
vision. Coxeyism and Populisr
are close kin. The foreign sour
of Europe makes the readiest re
cruits for Coxey's band. Anarch
ism and socialism are then tn
strongest elements In this ruin
Gus agitation, and, unfortunatel
tariff agitation is used by tn
fomenters of discord to keep Il
the whirl. Hence to stop tart
agitation is q step toward Tia
end Of al this noxious strife.