The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-30

proud government, the richest most
poVer3a, on the globe, should have
been tEought to SO low n base that Il
JGM should have been appointed it's re-
ce' tr and presumes a patronize us.
he responsibility of providing
revenue and looking afer the solyency
OF the treasury which rests with Con-
greSs, has been usurped by the Presi-
dent. Why is he not impeached? BE
cause he is carrying out Republican
policies, and the majority in the House
of Representatives feel safe and be-
ieYe that they are certain to elect
the next President and obtain control
of the Government. They are willing
10 load down the incompetent or dis
honest Democracy I say the incompe-
tent and dishonest Democracy with
the odium of misgovernment to lend
their help by acquiescence in wrong
dong. The policy is to do nothing
TO preserve mastery inactivity and
only obstruct where relief can be
given.
THE encroachments of the Fed
efal Judiciary and the supineness and
enality-coruption | may say--of the
Republican branches of the Govern
ment, are causes of deep concern to all
thinking and patriotic men. We are
fast drifting into government by in
junction in the interest of monopoiles
and corporations, and the Supreme
Court, by one corrupt vote, annuls an
act of Congress looking to the taxa
tions of the rich"
"The struggle from 1861 to 1865.
which drenched this fair land in blood,
was to emancipate four million black
slaves. We are fast approaching a
condition which will place the collar
of industrial bondage around the necks
of ten times that many white slaves
| would not predict revolution or war
if ] did not feel that relief must come
either by ballot or that an effort will
be made in few years to obtain it
by bullets. You may look upon me as
an enthusiast, as an alarmist, or as an
anarchist, but with the sober convic-
tions of common sense ] tell you that
if the teaching of all history is believed
we must surrender the belief that
like causes produce like effects if men
expect that the millions now out of en-
ployment and the other millions who
are working out hopeless existence OF
toll year in and year out, will not some
day have reckoning"
In conclusion he said: "a day of
reckoning will come unless there is no
longer just God in Heaven, and when
Is does come, woe be unto those who
have been among the oppressors of the
people. The present struggle is I'M
fortunately too much like that which
preceded the late civil war, inasmuch
as it is sectional. The creditor and
the manufacturing States of the North
and East, those which have grown in
ordinately wealthy at the expense of
the producing classes of the South and
West, are urging this policy with the
besotted blindness of Belshazzar. The
old shareholders of the South were not
more arrogant or more determined.
The sordid despotism of wealth. to
use the apt phrase of Justice Brown, is
already felt throughout the land.
''You have already been told in glow
ing language by the eloquent Senator
from Missouri that the conflict is 'ir-
repressible,' and it is easy to see from
the temper and feeling of the equally
distinguished Senator from Colorado
and other Western Senators that the
struggle for the new emancipation has
begun. And the new Mason and Dix
on's line which is drawn not by the
surveyor but by the denial of the ma
titral right to life, liberty and the pur-
suit Of happiness TO large majority
of citizens, will sooner or later bring
together in the bonds of union the
toiling and now down-trodden masses
of the cities and the equally desperate
masses of the country; agrarianism
and communism Will join hands. There
are millions now on the march; and
they tramp, tramp, tramp; tramp the
sidewalks hunting work, and tramp
the highways begging bread. Unless
relief comes they will some day take
notion to tramp to Washington with
rifles in their hands to regain the lib
critics which have been stolen from
them. or which their representatives
have sold, and the hitherto conserya-'
tive force Of the republic-the well to-
do agricultural class viii lift no hand
TO stay the march but join it, Cod
grant that our country may be s'Srcd
the enactment of such scenes as were
witnessed in Paris in 1889. But the
fair flower of liberty planted by Jef-
ferson and the immortal declaration OF
the fourth of July, 1776, watered by
the blood of our revolutionary sires
under Washington, cannot be uprooted
or smothered by the noxious weeds of
monopoly and class privilege without
bloodshed."