Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-06-03


has ground hundreds Of thousands OF
her best people into senistarVation. and
IN Ireland has driven multitudinous
tenants almost 10 madness. and In the
United States proposes 10 take the
wealth OF $4,000 900 or TO.coc. 900 of peo-
PIE and prt il in few silken wallets.
Monopoly. brozen-faced. iron-fn-
gered. suiture-hearted monopoly. Of
fsrs his hand 10 this republic. lie
stretches 4, out over the lakes and up
the great railroads and over the telc-
graph polos OK the continent and SAYS.
Here are NY heart and hand. Be mine
forever" Let the millions OF the people
north. south. cast and west forbid the
banns OF that marriage. forbid them nt
the ballot box. forbid them on the plat
form. forbid them by great organis A.
tions. forbid them by Che overwncimiag
sentiment of an outraged nation. forbid
them BY the protest Of the church of
God. forbid them hv prayer to hi~h
Heaven. That Herod shall not have
this Abigail. 1t shall not he 70 all-oe-
vourirg monopoly that this land is 10
be married
Another suitor claiming the hand OF
this republic is nshilism.
He owns nothing but knife for uni-
vcrsal cutthroatcry and nitrorlycerin
bomb for uni, ersal explosion. tie be-
lieves in no Cod. no government. no
Heaven and no he'll except what he can
make on earth. lie slew the ear of
Russia. keeps many a l.ing practically
imprisoned. killed Abraham Lincoln.
would put 20 death every king and pres
idcnt on earth. and. IL hc had the power.
would chmb up until he could drive
the God OF Heaven from His throne and
take il himself. the universal butcher.
In France it is called communism. in
the United States il is called anarchisu;
in Russia il Is called uihiusm. bat tilat
last is the most graphic and descriptive
term. IL means complete and eternal
smash-up. IL would make the holding
of property "a crime. and IL would drive
a dagcer through your heart and put
a torch TO yosr dwelling and turn over
this whole land into the possession Of
theft and lust and rapine and murder.
Where does this monster liVeT Iu all
the towns aud cities % this land. "a Of
fers it's hand 10 this fair republic. IL
proposes .c fer~t.o risees +hr
box. the legislative hall. the congress
sional assembly. IL would take this
land and divide il up. OF. rather, di-
vide ia down. IL would give as much 20
the idier as 10 the worker. 20 the bad
as 20 the good Nihilism. This pan
ther. having prowled across. other
lands. has set its paw on our soil. and it
Is only Whiting for the time in which
70 spring upon it's prey. IL was nihilism
that burned the railroad property at
Pittsburgh during the great riots; Il
was nihiiism that slew black people
In our northern cities during the war;
IL was nihilism thEt mnuled % death the
Chinese immigrants years ago; IL is nj
hiiism that Viares out OF the windows
of the drunkeries upon sober people
as they go by. All. lis power has never
yet been tested. pray God its power
may never be fully tested. IL would. II
il had the power. leave every church,
chapel, cathedral, schoolhOuse and col
lege in ashes.
Let me say il is the worst enemy OF
the laboring classes in any country.
The honest cry for reform lifted by op-
pressed laboring men Is drowned out
by the vociferation for anarchy. The
through our cities talking about their
rights, when their first right is the pen
itentiary-sf they could be hushed up.
aad the downtrodden laboriDg men II
.his country could be heard. there
would be more bread for hungry chill
dren. In this land riot and bloodshec
never gained any wages for the people
Ut gathered up any prosperity. In this
land the best weapon is not the club
not the shillalah. not firearms. but thu
ballot. Let not our oppressed laboring
men be beguiled TO coming under the
bloody banner OF nihilism. II will make
your taxes heavier. your wages
smaller, your table scantier, your chill
dren hungrier, your suffering greater
Yet this nihilism, with feet red OF
slaughter, comes forth and offers It's
hand for this republic. Shall the banns
be proclaimed? If so, where shall the
marriage altar be. and who will be the
officiating priest, and what viii be the
music? That altar will have 10 be
white with bleRched skulls, the officiat
ing priest must be dripping assassin
the music must be the smothered groau
of multitudiuous victims. the garlands
must be twisted of night shade. the
fruits must be the apples Of Sodom. tkC
wine must be the blood of st. Bartholo:
news massacre. Nol IL is not TO nj
hilism, the sanguinary monster, thai
this land is TO he married.
Another suitor for the hand OF this