The Louisiana populist., 1895-07-26
A FEW PREDICTIONS.
MUCH FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN
FEW WORDS.
What an English Paper Predicts In Re-
gard to the Future OF This Country, In
Consequence ofExIsting Condition, Ine-
qualities and Injusticsa

Thinking people all over the world
cannot fail to be impressed with the
situation in America to-day.
The government founded by the
patriots of the revolution has beer
the admiration OF the world.
The resources of the most favored
portion of the earth have contributed
to our greatness.
Our boasted liberty has attracted
the attention o. every student OF polit-
ical problems.
In every nation OF the globe lead
ing minds are watching with hopeful
eyes the outcome of our attempt to
establish and maintain a government
OF, for and by the people.
In this connection it Is interesting
to note the opinions Of watchful peo-
pie who have noted passing events
and are disinterested witnesses.
The following is from the London
Echo" and as such is OF more than
usual interest.
1t is worth the careful attention OF
every American.
The Echo says:
1.-The signs OF the times indicate
that before the sun rises on June l..
1900, the great American nation will
groan and writhe in an agony OF rev.
olution and the streets will be slip
perry with blood.
"A hundred drops OF blood for
each gem that flashes on the necks OF
the rich and Pampered women. and
ten drops of blood for each tear that
has washed the fach of the poor.
..Every election is carried by fraud
and Doodle. Politics is so rotten that
it stinks.
Everybody knows it, and nobody
cares.
America is no longer a republic.
1t is plutocracy.
1.-The president is merely the crea-
tion of the banks, or bank directors.
railroad kings and coal barons. and
it is the same with the governors OF
the states.
1.-The poor whine about their pow
erty aud gnaw their crust OF bread.
but can always be counted on to vote
for the rich and shoulder their musk
cts and lay down their lives in de-
fense of the right OF the rich to rob
them.
"A nation such as this, in which.
one million plutocrats tyrannize over
sixty millions of slaves, will either be
overthrown by foreign power or
drowned in its own blood or die OF
gangrene.
1.-The various labor organizations
neither think together, vote together
nor work together, aud they have no
money to bay votes. lawyers and
judges.
Soldiers and police shoot down
laboring people and are cheered on in
their bloody work by monopolistic
editors, capitalists and the clergy.
..But the day will soon come when
there will be a horrible dance to
death, lighted up by burning houses
and the music of cries and groans
and dynamite bombs.
.Rich idlers amuse themselves at
Newport aud Tuxedy; poor workers
toll ceaselessly in the darkness of the
mine and the din of the mill.
..Young men and women dawdle
over iced champagne and oyster pat
ties; old men and women pick rotten
food out OF the garbage cans.
..Lap dogs are driven through Cen
- :, x~l. tha oir. child rop A Ia
of overwork in filthy garrets.
..Piety In the White House 'endur-
ing the fruits of bribery-inidelity
In the tenement honse enduring the
punishment OF uprightness.
These are the signs of the times
in America to-day-sigus that point
to calamities 700 dreadful to imagine,
but which nothing can avert"
1t Is the hope Of every true friend
of humanity. that the dreadful pre-
dictions of this English writer may
be averted. but it can only be through
the education of the masses, and the
active work of those who are capable
of realizing the enormity OF the crimes
being perpetrated in the name OF law
and order.
1t is our duty to meet the question
at issue and solve the problems that
are presented Ia = rational manner.
Continuing the policy OF the past,
means q veri6catiou Of these predic-
tions.
The question of the hour is. wheth-
er or not the spirit Of '76 survives.
Are we nation Of fawning sy-
cophants, cringing at the feet Of
heartless sristocracy, or have the
American people the courage and
patriotism to meet the issue?-
Chicago Express.