Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-07-31
EUE.irT ANSWERS CHALMERS.
some Important Historical Examples
worth Remembering.

worth RemcmDerihSs
Gen. J. II. Chalmers announces 10
the public through a Memphis daily
that he has withdrawn from the Poo
Piles party, and gives as a reason Tor
his action that "he had seen an an
nouncement in the Peoples Messenger
that Debs and his followers have join
ed the Peoples party, and in the same
pancr there was an editorial endorsing
DebS."
The Messenger may have been un-
fortunate in it's expressions with refer
ence to President Debs, and it is bare
ly possible Gen. Chalmers has not
properly estimated his character and
that of his followers. 1t is fact well
known to our old commander as well
as ourselves, that this journal has al
ways stood for the rights of the mass
es as against the classes, and while II
regrets to have been the medium
through which any good man may be
driven from the ranks of our party, 1T
cannot change its convictions with ev-
cry passing breeze.
We dislike to lose Gen. Chal-
mers as much on his own &c
count as anything else, for now
as that there is no Independ-
ent. Greenback, Labor Union, or Re
publican party in this State he is left
the alternative of climbing in at the
back door of the ballot-stuffing bull
doing Democracy, or going in gang
to himself This paper does not advo-
cate lawlessness. and it does not desire
A TRIUMPH of labor over capital any
more than it wishes to see ''the blight
ing influence of the advancing standard
of money compel the people to bow
the knee in subjugatioD, but 1t stands
for equal and exact justice to both
classes, and its sympathy is with Mr.
Debs and his followers to the extent
that it wishes they may be able to eX-
| tort from their opponents every just
and reasonable demand, chief among
which is the arbitration of differences
between employers and employees 10y
fairly constituted board, and this
sympathy we cannot withdraw even to
please our old General, for we do not
| believe Debs is "a knave or fool or ia
natic," nor do we believe the A. r. U
as an organization, is an "unthinkine
rabble" with torches in hand" ready
| to light the heavens with incendiary
fires.
History teaches us that continued
and persistent oppression of labor by
capital has produced serious results
in the past and the same cause may be
followed with like effect III this age
King Louis and his mobiles mercilessly
robbed France and when the peasant
protested he tauntingly told the starry
ing people to "eat grass Then
what Gen. Chalmers would pro
baby denominate an "unthinking
rabble," one day as hot as
last Saturday, charged the Bastile
demolished the fortress and on its
ruins laid the foundation of better
government Our revolutionary sires
seeing their grievances scorned by
the mother country, and their peti
tions spurned from the foot of the
British throne, organized themselves
into an ''unthinking" rabble and, dis
guised as sayages, under the cover OF
darkness, threw the tea into Boston
harbor and thus began war of de
struction to property and priyation
hardship and suffering to the people
Of the thirteen liberty loving colonies
which, after seven long years of torci
and sword, pillage and bloodshed, end
ed in American Independence.
Geo. Nj. Pullman, his coadjutors ant
apoligists should profit by these exam
ples.--Pe0ple's Messenger.