The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-27

the latter. 1t was Macaulay who de-
, ciared that If revolutionary violence
vas allowed to go unchecked, the world
might find it necessary to destroy
liberty In order to preserve civilization.
ihe Eagle improves upon this by declar-
ing that liberty is to be preserved, not
DESTROYED. and it continues that there is
other liberty besides political liberty.
IN There is the liberty of property.
ihere Is the liberty of labor. The right
VI man 10 his property and 10 his la
Dor Is as fundamental as his right TO his
M ne or to his vote. Law can take his
IRE or his vote, but it must be law i'm
partially operative on all men. Law
can aeai likewise with his property or
Win ms labor, but it must also |
20 imparually operative. That |
mnlch attacks man in his right of prop |
cry ana OF labor is as distinctly thing
Vi anarchy as the assassination of Car
n not was or of Lincoln or of Garfield.
Inc destruction of ruler is not more
an act OF anarchy than the destruction
Vi tnat junction of government which
secures ilgnt OF life, OF ballot, or prop
erty and of labor
Ihe application of these truis,ns Is
'uis mat which in several American |
states substitutes minority government
ior majority government is essentially
a lhing OF anarchy; that which in
other American states and in the
congress OF the United States adds to n !
.aA Oh property, "a tax on the income of I
property Is essentially a thing of an i
rcny; that which in many communities !
~ ,ne United States denies To a man his i
,.Sns " cohtfol his own arrangements C
- ai oinPioyer or ms own arrangements q
Is an employee is of the very essence of I,
The basis of Populism is an q
'rchy. The basis of oppressive courses :,
u trade Junionism is auar.nv. The =
'asis OK the violence to property or to a,
y, Isohs exhi4ted in strikes is anarchy. a
ne oasis OF an income tax, a tax by
ne many on the few, is anarchy.
americans who are deploring and
tenounclng anarchy in Europe have
iehty or 1t ut home to depiore and
enounce. Many Americans are abet- cl
ng IL and applauding it instead of W
epi9ring 1t and denouncing it. That OF
nlch III Europe strikes at govern uI
lent and in Congress ats in. ar
'ines ana in the South at negro de
mirage and In the West at rail TIA
,aos ana mines. and in Pennsylvania. ha
est Virginia, ONO and Illinois at the >"
yes OF men who are willing to work ON bri
rms made by themselves and not ne
ade by others is as really and firmly ar,
archy as was the action of Guiteau or Tn
the desperado in Lyons on Sunday. of
tne bomb throwing of Henry or of to
lilIan', whose heads were lately cut ma
IN Paris. of,
lhe Eagle has struck at the root of for
matter. What was the recent coal GOO GOO
Ike, which called the troops out in tin,
states TO stop the murders and de- the
uction OF property caused by the con- thr'
between labor and capital but an pro-
by? -, ol
ne outrages in Pennsylvania. Ohio way
Illinois Like those at Homestead mis-.
% the results of an anarchistic ten may
cy which regarded neither the law don,
the sacredness of life and property.
such outbreaks are on the increase.
on the decrease. The Molly n,
'uireism OF the seventies pales into at III
gnificance with the labor riots of the men,
tiles. .s potter
ne present attempt of the American 70 -, !,
way Union to fight the Pullman grea,
pany by paralyzing traffic is another and
'nce OF unionism which is anarchy whic
right OF labor to organize is admit he hsa,. ="
but the right Of organized labor to colies
fere with the labor of men ifeste
not exist and its attempt to
'ce its claimed right by force of TT
is menace to our national
When the things that
government worth being oPS'
overthrown, the government
is virtually overthrow. The
OF one man to- saw A 81
another man mpst ~. ~ Eastel
not iaDor the
aver existed in any government and to
ally under a povernmart ,,,h tenn,
+ ,.iv;I 81 "nrre addres
~sn anu reiigious freedom Is chief
edsafed to every man. treasu