The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-06-07

power, vca!d climb 1p u2;ii he cvUId
drive The God Of heaven from his throne
and take ii himself, the universal
butcher. In France it is called COM
munism; in the United States it is call
ed anarchism; in Russia it is called nj
hilisnl, but that IS the most graphic and
descriptive term. 1t means complete
and eternal smash up. 1t woulo make
the holding Of property crime, and it
would drive dagger through your heart
and put torch to your dwelling and
turn over this whole land into the pos
session Of theft and lust and rapine and
murder
Where does this monster live? In
all the towns and cities Of this land. 1t
offers its hand to this fair republic. 1t
proposes to tear to pieces the ballot
box, the legislative hall, the congres-
sioual assembly. 1t would take this
land and divide it up, or rather, divide
it down. 1t would give as much to the
idler as 10 the worker, TO the bad as to
the good. NihiliSm. This panther
having prowlea across other lands has
set its paw on cur soil, and it is only
,Ta;+;nr u for tho time in which to spripc
nHon o,,,, rs n~ev Il was nihilism that
bnrned the ra;lroad property al Pitts
hnrr during the great riots: it vas III
hilism that slew black people IN our
northern cities during the war: it was
r;5;iisn that aauled to death the Chi
Nose Immigrants wears ago: it is nihilism
that cIares cut Of the windows of the
druukeries upon sober people as they
20 by. All. its power has never yet
been tested. pray God it's power may
never be fully tested. 1t would, if it
had the power, leave every church,
chapel, cathedral, schoolhouse and col
lege in ashes.
Iot ny. say i ! tho worst enemy Of
the - sboring classes in anv country.
'Tbo bonest crT for reform lifted bv op.
L-assaS .eS L Iabor;3g ~, una i drowned ont bv
r5o''cr .ba 1on;fe-at;on [.;9 &C., anarchv The
crir,inels c-I and the var4honds who range
tbronpb our cities talking about their
RIGHTS when their first right is the PEN
iten1iarv-if thew could be hushed up,
and the downtroddeD laboring men of
this country could be heard. there would
be more bread for hungry children. In
this land riot and bloodshed never
gained apv wages for the people or
Gathered up anv prosperity. In this
land the best WEAPON is not the club,
not the sbillalab not firearms. but the
ballot. Let not our oppressed laboring
men be beguiled to coming under the
bIoodv banner of nihilism. 1t will
mske vonr faxes heavier. YOUR wages
smalIer vonr fable scantier, your chill
Sren hnngrier your suffering greater.
Va his n;biIism with feet red Of
sIsnobtar comes forth and offers it's
hand han for orr This reppblis Shall the banns
he proclaimed? Ifso. where shall the
marriage altar be? and who will be the
oficiatinc priest? and what will be the
music? That altar will have to be
white with bleached skulls, the oficiat-
ing priest must be a dripping assassin
the mnsic must be the smothercd groan
Of multitudinous victims, the garlands
must be twisted of night shade: the
fruits must be apples of SoGom, the
wine must be the blood Of St. Barthol-
onews massacre. No. 1t is not to
nihilism, the sanguinary monster, that
this land is to be married.
Another suitor for the hand Of this
nation is in6delity. When the mid
night rufians despoiled the grave OF A:
T. Stewart in St. Marks churchyard
everybody was shocked; but inidellty
proposes something worse than that
the robbing Of all the graves of chris
tendon Of the hone Of a resurrection.
+ nroncses to chisel ont from the tomb
srones of vonr Christian dead the words
::4sieen in Jesus" " and substitute the
words Observation-Disclosures. "
InfSeIitv nronoses to take the letter
from the worlds Father, inviting tno
nations to virtue and happiness, and
tear il nm into fragments so small that
Won cannot read a word Of it. 1t propos-
es ~ take the consolation from the
brokepbearted and the soothing pillow
e-,, 49, dr;,r 1,fdo,;tv nronoses n
80 $50 ~ ~ +ba nrosident Of the United
S+s+as Ss1I. a. anS The sTnTeme conrt and the
rorar1o~s T ~ of statss md the witnesses
- S1u,u tba conrt~oom With their right hand
-, - ps;no;s Aoo of Reason or Toltaire's 5
~ :.pb;IosorLr ) S1nI , w of Hisrorv + nronoses
:aI- ni!ooosns ;: s.on, ~ he cor,t-vtbe hook
~ an s"~! ~ ,t 5;g.ranoe @ between the
I;3 14ss a;&Ses Sss.en .He .oJ t5e ti,sSom If Da.
S. Gn2tSo $3.50 st~osn S a,na-;can M civ;lizat;on
no9Ty, nn5 Bornss;an oesa oonn;boiism r. ;n6deIi-
~ ,r- cn,,i5 destTov the Scriptures it
would in 200 Years turn the civilized
na,ions back to semibarbarism, and
then from semibarbarism into mid
aisbt savaperv. until the morals of a
mensoar;a of tigers ratt'esnakes and