The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-10
AN ANARCHISTS PROPHECY.


George Tilman. OF South Carolina. not
| the anarchist who was made Governor
Of the State and afterwards United
States Senator. but an anarchist, VINO
seems in every way worthy of the name
| of Tillman, man who was two terms
in Congress from South Carolina, has
| given the public the benefit of his views
| on what the future has in store for this
country, and this is what he Es S TO say
"Our people arc desperate. We are APP
| preaching a war between the rich and
| the poor. and / look for lots of throat
| cutting between now and 1900. Inc mn
| lionaires have opposed the masses until
the latter are like a squeezed lemon.
| They are unable TO educate their chill
| dren. TO travel and improve their minds,
or TO read books. papers and magazines.
| They merely make a living. and a scant
one at that They have grown desperate.
The millionaires buy up half the masses
ard put arms in their hands with which
TO intimidate the other half, and thus
keep them all in subjugation.. The time
is coming when these people wi rise
in q bloody conflict / look for it during
the rext Presidential campaign. or the
one after that.
All the NrltcrS on our government
unite in declaring that If this republic
ever goes to pieces ii will be at the Pc
riod of a Presidential election in a con-
fiict over the spoils of office and the W.
ministration of the faculties of taxation.
Calhoun told the truth when he said that
the tendency of republics was toward
despotisms, never toward aristocracies
SO firmly do / believe that this revolu-
ton is coming that | am already pre-
pairing for it. l have three sons. ana
10 that end, | am giving them all a mill
tary education, so that when the throat
cutting comes they will not be high pri-
Yates in the rear ranks"
OF course there is going to be nothing
of this sort in the United States, though
men like the Tillmans would like TO see
something of the sort and it is not go
ing to occur. because there is nothing in
our social organization when calls for
any such state OF affairs or would Jus,i-
fy it. The prophets of evil. who fore
bode internecine strife in America. al
ways point to the savagery and butcncry
of the French Revolution as evidence
that we are going to have something OF
the same sort in America. But these
gentle1 en- all overlook the essential dis
tinction between the two Eases. a lit
tie more than hundred years ago III
small class Of Frenchmen. and
practically ignored all other Frenchmen
The law made small class
privileged Frenchmen. and the
privileges thus conferred upon this small
class comprehended all the properly in
the kingdom. and all the averNes in
which property could be sought and ac-
cumulated. The great body OF the ma
ton were made slaves of few French
men. and this was done by the law of
the land The French people had real |
and a great grievance therefor. Their !
laws were nothing but a collection of ty- |
edicts, and they rebelled. and |
overthrow the existing order of society |
that they might establish a system OF |
laws under which one man should have
eve opportunity in life tina; another
had
But we have. in this country, the very
stale and condition Of things which the
French thought TO bring about. We
have a state and condition of things In
" hich no man or set of men can be
privileged, and each man has every OPP
portunity in life which any other has.
We leave ont of consideration. OF
curse the n'onopolics Of the Ia 'iff laws)
II. therefore. the rule that prevails IN
.hese United States is not the ideal rule,
I is hard 10 imagine what the ideal rule
should be. There is nothing. therefore, in
he principle upon which our social or
;anization is founded against which any
nan can justly rebel. If he rebels, 1t is
because some other man has got ahead
II him in the race Of life and he thinks
10 should have some Of that mans ac-
for the reason that accumu-
atoms are very good thing to rave.
Fortunes in the United States are I'M
oubtsdly unequal. But how can there
e any society without this being the
ase? II we should rub out and start
fresh. IL all the property now existing
n the world were brought together ana
ivided out amongst men, does not every
nan know that some men would at once
ecome improvidert and lose what they
ad. while other men who were frugal
nd thrifty. would at once begin to ac-
emulate what the thriftless parted with?
You'd not that very state OF affairs
pom return which we had ovcr(hrown
II order 10 end? And II this is so. as
very mans smmon sense teaches him
} be case. what more Is possible in lie
ian = state Of affairs in which each
IN shall have an unrestricted opportun.