Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-31
will nlace the collar of industrial bondage

will place the collar of industrial bondage
around the necks of ten times that many
white slaves. I would not predict revo-
luton or war if did not feel that relief
must come either by the 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 alarnlst, or as an
anarchist, but with the sober convictions
of common sense tell you that the teach
ing of all history is belied and we must
surrender the belief that like causes pro-
duce like effects if men expect that the
millions now out cf employment and the
other millions who are working out
hopeless existence of toll year-iiI and year
out, the woman stitching in poverty hum
ger and dirt, the men bearing their hope
less burdens Of debt, all directly traceable
to bad government, Will not some day
have reckoning"
In concluding the senator said "A day
of reckoning will come unless there is no
longer lust God in heaven, and when 1t
does come, woe be unto those who have
been among the 0ppressors OF the people.
The present struggle is unfortunately too
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 inOrdinately wealthy at the eN-
pense of the producing classes of the South
and West, are urging this policy with the
shareholders of the South were not more
arrogant or more determined.
1.-The sordid despotism of wealth, to use
the apt phrase ofJuStice Brown, Is already
telt throughout the land.
"You have already been told in glowing
language by the eloquent senator from
Missouri that the conflict is 'irrepressible,''
and it is easy to see from the temper and
feeling of the equally distinguished sena-
tor from Colorado, and other Western
senator's, that the struggle for the new
emancipation has begun. And the new
Mason and DiXon's line, which is drawn.
not by the surveyor, but by the denial OF
the natural and alienable right to life,
liberty and the pursuit OF happiness TO
large majority OF citizens, will sooner or
later bring together in the bonds Of union
the toiling and now downtrodden masses
of the cities and the equally desperate
masses Of the country; agrarlanlsm ana
communism will join hands. There are
millions now on the march; and they
tramp, tramp, tramp the sidewalks hunt
ing work, and tramp The highways beg
ging bread. Unless relief comes, they
will someday take a notion to tramp to
Washington with rifles in their hands
to regain the liberties which have
been stolen from them, or which the
representatives have sold, and the
hitherto conservative torce OF the re-
public-the well-to-do agricultural class
will lift no hand to stay the march, but
join it. God grant that our country
may be spared the enactment Of such
scenes as were witnessed in Paris in
l7S9. But the fair flower of liberty plant
ed by Jefferson in the immortal declara-
tion of the Fourth Of July, 17I6, watered
by the blood of our Revolutionary sires
under Washington, cannot be uprouted or
smothered by the noXious weeds OF mo-
nopoly and class privilege without blood
shed.''