The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-01
TWO DANGEROUS CLASSES.
A Comparison Traced Between the Elk
tremely Rich and Poor as Result
of Republican Rule.
New Orleans Picayune.

| ITGUlGiN INlEll ann Il OoA Stso ANC7uAe
of Republican Rule.
New Orleans Picayune.
There has grown up in the Amerl
| can community, i'm the period since tins
civil war, two classes of society which
are out of place in a Democratic po
litical and economic system. These
| are the monopolistic capitalists on one
hand. and the tramps and ''hoboes,
the persistent and criminal loafers ans
J oilers, on the other.
They are both the products of thirty
years OF political control of the Re
publican party.
There can be no valid objection
urged against the accumulation OF
wealth by citizens. 1t is a competition
which, in strict accordance with Demo
cratic principles, is open to all. Any
citizen has a right to make fortune
by any honest means in his reach, and
the laws most porperly protect him in
the possession and enjoyment of his
wealth. But only limited number Of
persons have the industry, the habits
of economy, the foresight or other
qualities necessary for such a purpose,
great fortunes i'm this country have
been inherited, many more have been
created through the personal qualities
and by the eXertions of individuals
themselves.
So long as this was exclusively the
case, every citizen who was able by
his talents, his industry and sagacity
to become the pOssessor Of great
wealth, was entitled to a certain de
gree of applause and appreciation for
displaying in the pursuit of his legiti-
mate business unusual abilities.
Such was the case in the period be-
fore the civil war, when the political
control of the country was under the
direction of the Democratic party. It
was in every case of success in bust
ness an illustration of the law of the
survival of the 4ittest. Every man
stood on his own merits, and received
MO special or class benefits from the
power of the government.
But since then there has grown UP a
class of men possessed of colossal for
tunes, accumulated not by their own
talents and honorable exertioDs, but
through special legislation by Con-
gress made for their benefit. They are
the ibeneficiaries of a political system
which takes from the many TO give
to the few; which levies tribute upon
the masses of the people in order to
enrich limited and favored class.
They are the product Of political cor
ruption which it is to the interest of
such men to perpetuate at no matter
what cost of loss and misery to the
balance of the population.
This favored and pampered class is
particularly the product of the Repub-
lican party, and THE existence of such
protected and petted class in the
American community has, by reason
of it's political power and overbearing
arrogance, given rise to the enormous
and widespread discomfort which
threatens to deluge the country with
the demands and the practices of a
most penicious and disorganizing So
cialism.
AT the same time and in direct com
trast with the protected money mo-
nopolists, there is THE class of criminal
idlers, who absolutely refuse to work
or to contribute anything to the COM
mon stock of wealth and usefulness.
They form dangerous proletariat,
composed of tramps, hoodlums, politi-
cal agitabors and the entire pestlent
brood engaged in stir ing up social
strife, tanning the embers of popular
discomfort and seeking to create as
much as possible of social discord to
overthrow, if they can, every safe
guard for the protection of society and
the recognized standards of honor, vir-
tue and truth.
Tt should be noted that this radical
element does not even include the ordi-
many professional criminals who are
engaged in a regular business of rob
berry, although they are ready enough
to follow in any unlawful raid ON So
cial order; butt they are neither the
originators nor THE leaders of this rad
ical movement. They seek seclusion
rather than notoriety, so that they
| may carry on their nefarious opera
tons in secret; while the tramp and
the 'shobo" flaunt their shame and de-
sire nothing so much as to drag down
| all that is honorable and good to their
own base level.
The two dangerous classes men
toned are engaged in most serious as
| saults upon public order and the in
| stitutions of bhe country, and, if either
could have it's way, there would either
| be mob rule or an autocratic despot-
ism.
Against both assaults the masses OF
the people should array themselves. A
| powerful class of monopolists must
have a powerful military government
| TO uphold them and their interests. A
| radical mob, on the other hand, wants
~no government, and in it's place dis
order, disorganization, confusion,
chaos, in themidst of which the revo-
lutionary chiefs can work their will.
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