Middletown transcript., 1894-07-14
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Il stand here, not as a Southern man
but as an American citizen, and ! wish my
voice could range through the hearts o.
every lawbreaker on the continent, when
say that the men who wore the gray from
'61 to '65 and confronted the Stars and
Stripes will be found side by side with the
men who wore the other uniforms. follow
ing that flag in upholding the dignity Of
the country over which it floats. applause
Zone more thought; the distinguished
Senator from Minnesota, Mr.. Davis, said
truly and wisely that the great strength OF
this country was the common class. | be-
long to that class. am farmer and only
farmer and as their representative stand
here to-day to say that south of the Poto-
mac River you will not see farmer, be he
white or black, who will not rally to the
support of the Government in the support
of the power which the people have elected.
| wish the matter could have been settled.
regret the bloodshed, but want to say as
an honest man that the blood which has
been shed or will be shed, be it an ocean. is
nothing to the price of this Republic and
its value and the sons of the men who made
it will save it whatever may be the cost"
The above utterance of Senator
Gordon, of Georgia, made on the floor
of the United States Senate, on last
Tuesday, was timely rebuke to Pef-
fer of Kansas, who had offered resolu-
tion providing for government con-
troll of railroads, coal fields and other
property, and supplemented by speech
which might well have been uttered by
''bushy-whiskered anarchist" of the
most violent type. What Senator
Gordan so aptly said is only expressive
of the feelings of .sixty-odd millions
out Of the seventy millions of people of
our land. We do not believe it can be
true that any material part of the
wage workers of this country, under
the infuenceaDd inspiration emanating
from the teachings and utterances of
ranting demagogues and political beg
gars and place hunters, have so far lost
sight and knowledge of our institutions
as to have degenerated into violent
anarchism, and stand ready on a most
fiimsy .pretext, to join in the violation
of all law and in the subversion of all
government. Whatever may be the
grievance, imaginary or otherwise, of
the Pullman employees, the great body
Of American working men are true and
loyal citizens, and opposed to mob rule
and violence Of ever kind. Yet, while
this is true. it is also true that organ
lied labor is many times misguided,
but never more so than are thetemporar-
lily blind followers of Debs and Sovrei-
gu. The action of the strikers is not
a case of right, with perhaps shadow
or taint Of wrong; nor is it case of
wrong partially supported with right;
but is a case of utter, inalterable wrong,
without the faintest shadow of right
to it; wrong so great as to reach the
magnitude of an awful crime and
should be met with the severest pun
ishment.
When Attorney General Olney said
that ':the soil Of Illinois is the soil of
the United States" he uttered funda-
mental truth of the constitution, and
every patriotic heart responds amen
When President Cleveland ordered
Federal troops into the state of Illinois
for the purpose of suppressing insur-
rection and protecting life, property
and interstate commerce, and that in
the face of the protests of Governor
who is both fool and anarchist, he was
right, inalterably and eternally right
and every loyal and true American
throughout the length and breadth of
our beloved country, will stand by him,
and no body need have any fear or
doubt as to what the result will be.
The one deeply humiliating thought
that comes to US in the contemplation
Of these deplorable scenes, is that the
great state of Illinois whose chosen
sons have filled, with eminent distinc-
tion, many of the highest places in
our country, and whose soldiers have
won laurels on many bloody fields, is
now prostituted to the accomplishment
of the bloody ends of red mout..ed
anarchy, growing and spreading under
cover and sanction of her governor.
Just as natural as night follows dayl
lust as natural as seed time follows
harvest, just SO natural is the present
state Of lawlessness and insurrection
the concomitant Of the damnable poll
tical debauch Of 1892.
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