The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-07-06
Shall it be Anarchy or a Car?

Six years ago, at indianapolis,
the 18th of next September, Benja-
min Harrison, Republican nominee
for Present of the United States,
gave utterance to the following
remarkable sentiment
81 do not believe that republic can live and
prosper whose wage-earners do not receive enough
to make life comfortable; who do not have some
upward avenue of hope before When the wage
earners of this land lose hope when the star goes
out-after that anarchy carl"
Was Mr.. Harrison gifted with
prophetic insight when he uttered
this sentiment in behalf of the
''protective" policy of his party {?
Certainly the evil conditions which
he described have received tre-
mendous impetus during the inter
vening six years of Republican
protection" Under the highest
"protectiven tariff known in our
history, we have seen the wage
earners of the United States receiv-
ing far less than "enough to make
life comfortable" We have seen
tens of thousands of would be wage
earners tramping the streets with
no "upward avenue of hope before
Them" And for those not vet
tramps we believe it is no exagger-
alton to say, in our great cities at
least, that to nine-tenths of them
''the star of hope has gone out"
The average wage worker in the
great American cities sees nothing
before him but life of grinding
toll, troubled by anxiety lest he
lose even that poor privilege, and
an old age of poverty, wretched-
ness and despair.
This is what the American wage
worker, "protected" by the policy
at a great political party, sees when
hh looks in the glass. He sees,
besides, another great party en-
deayoring to fasten upon him a
similar scheme of protection, y
which differs only from the first in
the amounts of the percentages
which are to go to the trusts and
soulless corporations, today, for the
most part, the masters of Ameri-
can labor.
If the words of Benjamin Har-
rison be true, anarchy or a czar"
is marching towards us with seven
league strides.
Of anarchy we have already
foretaste. The last two months of
the great coal strike give us hint
of possibilities when the attempt is
made to force "protected" Ameri-
can labor in this Gland of the freen
to work underground for 60 cents a
day and buy its necessities at
company store. Another anarchis-
tic feature is displayed when the
owners of the coal mines and the
railroads, defying State and nation
al legislation, unite in the spirit of
medieval bandits to limit produc-
tion, and compel helpless public
to pay So ton for an article that
can be mined and marketed for So.
Yet neither Benjamin Harrison,
prophet aforesaid, nor Grover
Cleveland, prophet of "tariff
REFORM" nor the foremost states
manship of the two great parties
which each represents, offers any
adequate protection against what
Mr.. Harrison declares to be the
fOrerunner of anarchy or a czar."
They propose continuation of the
very conditions which have devel-
oped and are still developing anar-
chism and tyranny.
The Republican and Democratic
leadership does not measure up to
the present American crisis. viii
it ever measure up to it? 1t takes
moral courage, as well as wise
craftsmanship to apply heroic
remedies. In both of these qualities
Republican and Democratic leader
ship of today is hopelessly bank
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