Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1895-02-02
A DANGEROUS SUGGESTION.

Now comes no less a parsonage than |
J. II. Sovereign, Chief of the knights Of
Labor, who states explicitly that last
summer during the big railroad strike
at Chicago, lac and Eugene Debs had
proposition which they entertained,
to lead rebellion against the govern
ment. II seems, plan had been sub
ally concluded not to embark in so
hazardous an enterprise. This is a very
important bit OF news. 1t deeply con.
Germs the nation that the Knights Of
Labor, or any other body OF working
men or citizens Of any degree OF inn
portance could entertain a reasonable
proposition from any one, especially
so powerful body rs the laboriug
masses OF the people Of the west. But,
ii was not carried out and in that way
an immense evil was averted. Doubt
less this wicked suggestion had its
origin, like the strike mentioned, in
the distresses, deep and widespread,
which had proceeded from the scarcity
Of money occasioned in the first place
by decentralization and in the second
place, by the nearer injury caused 10y
the repeal Of the Sherman purchase
law. For twenty years the industries
of the west have lain prone in dust by
reason OF the fact that there is ND
money and no demand for the pro
ducts Of labor. There is deep and
hopeless distress prevailing, where
there should be activity, good wages
and prosperity, as n part Of the plan
submitted to coerce the people intb
! the adoption Of the gold standard AMI
the utter destruction Of the money
|, functions of silver. Just how near We
were TO dreadful revolution when tile
Coxey armies were marching and the
strikes were on, perhaps we will nevtr
! know accurately. We do know enough
TO warrant the conclusion that the
> country came very close to the verge
Of an abyss, compared with which the
: rebellion Of 6l was but the merest oI
mere bagatelle.
( In the new rebellion, which is surely
; and steadily coming upon US, there
will be no blessed Mason & DixoE',
line. The rebels Of the new revolution
will be found sitting at our very hearth
stones, in every nook and corner O
the land They will be our ha I'd
= handed brethren Of toll, made hope
less and infinitely desperate by man,
years Of perjury aud cruel want pc
casioned only by the greed Of the gplt
barons of the cast. In the rebellion o
' 1861, desperate, bloody and district
i've as it was, the American ideas @
; universal liberty and the brotherh po'
n OF man entered largely. In the n vo
linton threatened last summer We ul'
q be found the victorious heroes Of Oh,
z struggle which closed in the spring q
1865. The universal diffusion Of tn,
i seasoned, hardy and intelligent rhel
e over the entire west, their acquaint
ance with affairs, their desperation an
Is the many madening circumstance
e entering into the uprising would hav
the bria fest time taught this ono
% happy and prosperous nation wha
u real rebellion and revolution mdani
In that of 81 il was one intellgen
u aud chivalric nation fighting ano hel
~ its full equal II was indeed civil ize
:, warfare upon International rules. Thi
: one, had it come off, would have bee
. only rebellion against the nat iona
:. authority. A cruel, bloody and il
1 human battle would have ragged o
n every plain, in every valley and o
every hill top in all the wide west an
the national government would nc
d itself have been an unit against it q
re il was when il brayely flonted the r.
bellion Of 81.
a May the good God avert revol utio
ef and rebellion for all the future Of th
NC nation. But while we make this pray,
with the sineerest candor, We can n,
DC shut our eyes to the many caus,
- which operated then and exist no
with equal force. The unequal chanc'
given and assured by the naticn
i policy Of piling up the yellow gold
40 the laps of the spectators ami go
eminent favofit of the east, viii
* the process OF the impoverishnlent
e- the west, by the same power, gbes {
m and on steadily and relentlessly.
is time to pause and consider the We
a If the government would turn IT. Ia
away from revolution.-Provq Di
ny patch.
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