People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-06

not lmpossib that when the patriots
draw near to the capitol, the govern.
ment will seek to oil struct their march
al Harpers Ferry and demand that
they proceed no further. These Amer
lean citizens would then maintain
their right to visit their national CAPT.
toll on mission of peace; he authori-
ties, anxious to disgrace, defeat and
annihilate their victims, would be
likely to provoke resistance and an
nounce to the world that they acted
from necessity.
1t would indeed be strange il such
mar h could Ike place without at.
tracing to it tn usands OF cranks,
men unemployed and brought almost
10 the verge of insanity, who might
do something unlawful, and thus fur.
nish pretext for an attack which
might mean the shedding Of blood by
the wholesale.
Should this occur, the suffering of
millions of human slaves, white and
black, would be brought to the atten-
ton of the wor d at large, and what
our years of agitation have failed to
do might be accomplished by this
att ok upon these patrio s; and the
spilling Of their blood bring imme-
diately to crisis conflict more gen.
eral in character, more lasting in con-
sequences and of greater magnitude
than anythi g ever known in the
worlds history.
In every civilized country on earth
this same restless, disturbing, anxious
condition exists The clouds seem to
be lowering, and as they lower they
gather blackness.
In France, this feeling Of unrest and
discomfort has taken another form
and as the PEOPLE bevJme desperate
they are resent e to the throwing
OF bomlS, and who knows but that
France is on the verge of another revo-
luton?
In Italy, Crispi was recently called
TO the premiership because he is
man of "blood and iron," who would
quickly crush out he budding sur
rections which were then on hand in
Sicily aud other provinces.
In Lordon, the recent demonstra-
tons on The pert Of labor indica
how the volcano is brewing there aad
liable to break forth at any time.
success in robbing and
draining other nations does not seem
To have operated 10 make her own
working Peep any happier, and as in
the days OF the Roman empire to be
freedom" is no exemption from the
cruel practices OF the blood.
financial vampires of Eng and,
they also must suffer with the rest of
the world over, to sati fy
The few at the top; and already the
,piIit of discomfort is becoming so
general that one # two things may
happen there about the time the peo-
pie in this country and France decide
10 act, viz: either the overthrow of the
house OF lords or an English revolu-
ion which will give the mistress Of
.he seas all she c1n take care OF.
Belgium, during the past year, has
been forced, through the gen, raj up
ming OF the people, TO make copdi-
ions with them that seemed impos /.
Die few months before.
Socialism in Germany is growing so
asst thati. threLt ms in q few years to
overthrow the empire itself, and in
act wherever you may look. in any
direction, upon any continent, dis.
resS, poverty and discomfort exist 70
UGH an extent that at any moment
here may be precipitsted in any coun.
~ revolution which may not be
onfned to the limits OF one nation.
'ut be worldwide in extent, resistless
q power, furious 10 action and 50
asting in results that it may change
lot only 10 the geographical bound |
ries Of nations, and the customs OF |
heir people, but leave It's trace on
he centuries Of the future.
Instead Of utilizing the surplus
te I'm which has been generating in
Il these countries, the powers that
e" have sought to Suppress it, and
ave been sitting on the safe'y-valve'
ntil now they dare not release It lest
ne mighty volume of indignation es.
ape and overwhelm them. 1t is more
IAN probable-it is certain-that this
ervssive murmur Of discomfort will
ise to awful vehemencein the near fu-
IRE, voicing the dem n of The social
nd political revolutionists
GEORGE +. WAsHBURy.