The record-union., 1896-07-18

making many converts or crowding into
any pulpit, though he tried desperately
hard to do so. Several very excellent
people entertained him, and gave him a
hearing, and some of them subscribe ITO
his doctrines, we trust with sincerity
and in the honest belief that they are
thus doing the very best thing possible
for their fellow-men.
In San Francisco Grondlund, referring
to the approaching election, declared
that we are on the eve of a great revolu-
ton, and added: II wish I could waken
you all to a sense of the terrible times
before US. am really afraid that with
in a year a second French revolution
viii be upon this country"
Afraid? Why, that is what the man
is working for and doing all he can to
produce 1t is his hope and dream.
Himself a foreigner, he left land Of
monarchy ITO stir up trouble in and to
bring upon the fairest heritage ever
vouchsafed to man by the good God the
the lips with fanciful theories as to how
society should be organized, managed
and ordered, he fears revolution be-
cause our people do not see things
through his glasses.
With literary and rhetorical smooth
ness, he has written and preached and
indulged in essays and theoretical leaf
let's until his whole being is absorbed
by the idea of an upturning of Ameri-
can things. This man has been work
ing Oregon and California with his
theories for several months, and of
course is pet with the anar-
chists, radical socialists and the
ignorant though some of them
affect to disagree with him, but
really are in sympathy with what they
hope will be the result Of his preaching
This unkempt individual, who is one
Of the eruption that has broken out as
the result of the Chicago convention,
| tells US that we are divided into classes,
and that inevitable war impends be-
| tween the classes and classes and be-
| tween the masses and the classes. He
has no true conception of American citi-
zenship, no idea whatever of American
sovereignty. He sees only that some
have and some have not, and that Is
sufficient. Though he covers it with the
| treacle of honeyed words and soft
sounding philosophy, really the man
wants a division every Saturday. Prov
idence, thrift and saving, as the result
such as he. Hence this fellow goes about
weeping and prophesying the downfall
OF the Republic, and advocating the
cause of the Chicago anarchistic crowd
that put Bryan to the front, and skulks
behind his elocutionary robes with
whetted knives for the throat Of the Re-
public.
Property. individual rights, American
institutions, patriotism and love of
country are all to go down before the
doctrine Of this new commonwealth
preacher. And he has hearing and a
following in California. They and their
kind, emboldened by the Chicago mob,
may make an attempt to cut the cords
Of the Constitution and set the ship of
State afioat. But what will be the re-
suit? A punishment so swift, terrible
and Overwhelmingly final that one may
well shudder to contemplate it.
Let these anarchists, real and masked
| these social philosophers who preach
| treason and rebellion, beware The
| American people are neither ready for
| the block nor prepared to give up their
dearly bought heritage for a sociaIistic
| song and Grondlund promise. The ma
ton, born for a purpose, has not nearly
achieved it, nor will it do so until the
last anarchist has confessed that his
| efforts are vain and has surrendered to
order, law and free,institutions, or else
taken his place beside the other buried
foes of American institutions, and the
american Union of sovereign States.
I
The Ohio State Board of Health has
| received the report of its expert, who
| finds that 20 per cent of all the mill,