The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-07-11

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And. as one OF the methods by which
TO be secured It adds:
believing in the sacredness OF hui
man life. we demand the abolition OF
| carital punishment"
That g. in order 10 establish condi-
ton I'm which there shall be mo starving
poor" no Involuntary idlers or tramps.'
mo parasites who revel in luxury on the
sweat and blood OF starving labor" but.
instead, zone intelligent, free and happy
humanity" these philosophers would start
out by turning Thorn and Mrs. Mack.
the murderers OF Guldensuppe. loose
upon the community 10 carve up their
enemies as they pleased and hide legs
arms and heads In the most convenient
places at hand.
This sort Of nonsense has always had
n strong Judgment in the brains Of the
weak minded and bad amongst men.
There have always been dreamers who
expected TO see men dwell together in
unity with no sanction for common right
but the love OF justice. and there have al
ways been men OF criminal instincts who
wished to see all punitive laws abolished
that they might crafty their piratical in
stincts at will. But no attempt has ever
yet been made at that sort OF a condition
that has not ended in corruption and
failure.
The discpnsary system that TNllman
set up in South Carolina is founded in
the Socialists ideas and the dispensary
system is rapidly drifting into the last
stages Of that sort Of rottenness that is
the inevitable outcome OF all such theo-
ries when put into practice.
A telegram from Columbia, S. c., states
that large shortages upon the part of
the county dispensers are coming TO light.
The books are of course. in such state
of confusion that no satisfactory state
ment OF the accounts can be made, but
enough is apparent to demonstrate that
there has been robbery and pill
fering. The dispensers are re-
CURED to give bond. but where the de-
linquencies are discovered and effort is
made to indemnify the State from the
sureties, these turn into straw men and
nothing can be made from them. In each
and every case where a dispenser is
found TO be a dofaulter his bond has been
found to be worthless.
And such IS the inevitable result Of any
attempt to run public affairs upon the
Socialists plan. Everything then be
longs to the voters and candidates for the
easy places inevitably bride the voters
with part Of the public fund, and so the
whole plan of government turns into one
seething mass rottenness and corrup-
tion from bottom to top.
Nevertheless, what do we now see go
ing on before our eyes?
The Populsts declare that they will
no longer remain attached TO free silver.
They are going back TO greenbackism
pure and simple. Upon every hand we
see evidences that restless spirits who
thought year ago that payment Of a
dollar with fifty cent was the surest
method Of producing a miraculous reform,
are drifting away from that notion to-
wards the Socialist heaven Of govern
ment control Of everything.
Mr.. Bryan does not know It. but his
notions about free coinage are founded
in exactly the same ideas that prompt
ed the Richmond Socialist Labor party
to declare for the Utopia described in the
extract from their platform that We have
quoted. His followers are going there
in time-that is. all of them who do not
get their eyes opened and return to
Democratic principles-and Mr.. Bryan
will as surely land there before he is
through as that water will continue to
run down hill.
There is but one rule for this life and
that is TO require every man TO return
100 cents when he receives 100 cents, and
to allow every man to do as he pleases
with himself and what is his 50 long as
he trepasses upon no right of his fellow
man and has no evil design against his
fellow man, and TO allow any number
Of men to do Jointly and in concert what
ever any one may lawfully do by him
self