The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-31

A8A1xxk raU2sDAY. Hay ~.
~ sasArIoxAL rAKrx.
The utass irrsiionalism II ~ Popalist
yasty - developed ~ shsis rsssiutions st
theis stete couvsuftoos = The bsss sssrT.
aMes that Il CARRIES dssth II its clothes.
Msny Il the popuisf industrial va&sxiss
and sconofnic errors It The day. IN both
xnsIand and ths Unissd otstss, had thstr
rot n tlss 1agiish CAarsism q 1857 to
Io16 chsstisa 10 Ensisnd was political
form 81 social dlscentent. 1hs English
Chastists thought thss fsss ballots and
uAissrsei suffrage vould care hanger In
Eagiand. 4 Chartiss orator told . meet
Ine a. 30 900 psssons 1t Manchester IN 1888
that " universal suffrage he meant % say
that 'isvsry woskinxman In the land would
HAVE good eeas ard hat. = good roof over
III hsed. : Good dinner on his table. /"
endsshis fallaciOus argument for univsrsai
suffrage was ehsersd by his ignorant
audience. Altar m abortivs attempt to
STIR up ssvoiusion In tbs unsssy tims OF
1sl4. Charlton - ; physical 1ofos vas u
n snA In Eneiand, and died amid The jssEs
and laughter a. The whole nation.
Wills the turbulence ~ physical forcs
chastism has yfslAsd somethiae n Eng
land y the spirit Of sssial snsliosation
much Of what VS. evil In III insane
msshods and expectations survives In the
popular uarsoeoa of ths Day On both sidss
u The ocean, MANY Of the social vsgariss
nov exciting ouf people vsrs propoundsd
b IL ChsstIsts. inelndiag The single tar
and land eonnscation thsory revived By
Hsnry Gsorka A Chartist petition pre-
ssntsd 10 parliament In lsss calls for such
legislation - viii compel the owners Of
lad 10 dsefsy al NE sxpsnsss u he
state" This petition denied ME right Of
private ownership Of land. rspudiatsd the
titls u iand Owners 10 what they call
their propsrty." Forty pears later Henry
Uscrgs seproducsd the argument and doc
trine Of this petition Of tsas and spoke Of
The title Of land owners IN America 70
"whai they are pleased to call their land. !"
In thu chartist address 70 Americans In
1887 appears the following question: :
why has 10 much Of your country bseu
parcclsd oul between swindiins bankers
and grinding capitalists" II b clear that
the communism. socialism and patssnai-
issn now current In the resolutions
Of the Populist party aud the Farm
sfs' Alliance mos only goes back 70
English chartism for it, origin. but even
for its stock phrases and shibbolsth. The
boycott dates hack 10 the Chartists. who
deereed that Chsrtists must deal sxclus-
lively with Charsists. In the years before
the Fs~nch revolution Of is&s Chartism
was ~ it, height and expressed iss popu.
lar discomfort In isolated acts Of violence,
incsndiaFlsm and riot In various parts oil
England. In leas the movement culmi.
mated In tho famous petition to parlis.
Tnsnt which WAS 10 contain 5000. 0co oil
names and 70 be presented by procession
Of SOC. 900 people. and which IL was
hoped would stir the nation to gen.
eral uprising. In fact less than 90.
90 persons assembled. and the police
prevented the procession. This was ths
last Of this promised Enelish revolution.
In ths language Of Justin Mccarthy, tbs
historian Of that day and nov the ablssl
mind Of shs Irish home rulers: .Chart.
fsm died Of publicity. Of exposure to thu
air. Of the evident tendency Of the time
20 settle ali questions by reason. Argument
msjorisies. Of growing education. Of q
strengthening sense Of duty among th,
ruling. more influential classes." And O
she noxious American sros,hs that hav,
come up from smigrant. transpiante<
Engiixh Chartisu is il safe 20 saw tina
they too will die ia due time of publicity
OF exposure to the oren air.s'
The vitality Of ropulism lee In the fac
that ron can no more debate with Il 10 an,
parecse than yca can argue IN irrasiona
man down 70 nationality. A sane. in
tslligens man cannot 10 any rurross dis
cues question: involving . difference o
opinion With man who il totally die
qualified Tor discussion BY bis insanity
his ignorance and h,s total incApacity {.
understand that fancsss. vhims and no
ticns are not facts: that Bsllamyism ans
ssale socialism are not practicable meas
urvs OF political reform under the conssi
tuition Of the United StaseA To dsseus
finance sith fslios whe Ignores the lav,
Of ansnee that hare been established b,
the uahsoksa experience Of the wosiS
since human society rose above harhars.n
b 20 nshi mere Windmill; 10 discus
congressional iegislation With . follow
Who - Ignorant Of the Fedora
constitution and the limitation 1
places apen congress h folly. You mixh
~ veil enasavcs 10 ecavtnes an isnoran
savaSe % the truth Of the coperalcan .ys
ten cs astronomy. or convince TIE Rev
Jeha Jasper. the colarsd crank Of Rich
meaa. Va. that Calico 10 right and cha
the Rev. John Jasess 10 wrone in he dor
mxsis sssssiioa that .';hs saa do move.
rspaisssn viii die ~ srrasicna. Eaxssa,
Chssssssa dies. Of publicity ana en-
rosars se the open air.. Ifa man Of IL,
Intellect 81 Daniel wehsser wsrs ssksa 4
Il would rata nsas,y days from date hs,
srfasss soald b worth neither nara MOI
lees shsa thai II the nsoss ssnsrxat fopu
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