Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-07-07
CELEBRATIONS
And a vrtr- VIVA SEus the H5de or
Our C.c-ditiou-

mauv tons of powder were burned
Tnat an unreasonable amount n
, noise vas made. now many cubic feet
E Of ms Hzzed from the lips Of orators
{ Of the day. what an unimaginable
lot Of TOT vas spouaed about me great
nsss. the gloriousHes=. the supreme
and heavenly fellcityof being an
American citizen in this rear Of our
Lord. IssT -
\ Yet is any one deceived By all this
n0Isee Optimistic indeed. or stone
deaf is ne VINO can not near the NUT
I teriugof the rising storm. Looked
7 at from either side-that of the pa
. sIeut and Oppressed masses. 0r that Of
the smart and s0glless 0iigarchy VINO
( are trying % enslave them-the vision
shows breakers ahead. We may clear
them. but it can only be by radically
changing our course He VINO f0ndlY
imagfnes that we can drift for the
next thirty years in the same dir
ecti0u that we have for the last thirty
ana not and ourselves on the rocks
he should wake I'D. rub his eyes and
clear mis- sight % what is going On
around him. or else he should 20 ana
lind some hole in the ground. that
man never saw and beast never
found, ana crawl in. and pull the
hole 10 after him.
No matter if We look at the situa-
tiOn from the standpoint Of those
conservatives who always uphold the
existing order Of things: no matter If
We believe with those who think that
God Almighty ordained that the
many should toll and staTve that the
few might live in useless and delnOr-
alizing luxury; no matter if We iOi
those who believe present conditions
% be a state Of natural evolution re-
zultiug in ..the survival OF the fttest"
isupp0siug sordid greed to be the
'.dttest' attribute given 70 man
still we can see that the poor, foolish,
scouudreuy, enyious and discOntented
masses are not going to submit much
longer without a struggle. We can
see that the struggle has already COM
menced. and that the only way in
which the select few, the wonderfully
smart and .ft' people, have 50 far
retained their asceudaucy has been by
keeping one section OF the masses
Ditted against another; by making
one half Of the people believe that the
other half were all kuayes and fools.
The tariff has been an ideal issue for
this purpose, but. thank God, the
tariff is losing its omnipOtent charm 1
As a word To conjure with. A year
from now there will be few left WHO
believe that a protective tariff alone
,an bring back prosperity.
And how are they endeavoring TO (
ease US downg Watch the pluto
cratic press. Read the .high-toned''
Notice how we are ad-
mOnished that We must not expect to /
ever again see such good times as we
have seen. Notice how the working /
people ana farmers are told that they
must make up their minds to come
down 10 the same style Of living rs
the like classes in the old world. OBJ
serve how the lower classes are ex-
l0rted TO be content in the condition
lf life 70 which il has pleased a be-
leicent Creator TO call them. Notice
how the high-salaried reyerends, pro-
fes@ed followers OF the meek ana
owly Nazarene, while preaching
against the evils Of the DAY except
.Hg ayaricel, yet strenuously uphold
Inc system which is largely response
bic for those evils; how they strive 70
US that poverty, nakedness, /
cold and hunger are al sent OF God f.
for our good, ana 70 turn our thoughts
above; how they huri from their cush- 4
ioned pulpits the anarhemas Of
Heaven against those who have the .
70 speak disrespectfully OF
their 'bettersn and OF the nan-made
laws that are grinding them into the
dusf Rqbf Ia they think thar fhn