Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-02
COMO.
Two Mighty Giants Tuggiug to
Destroy Each Other.
Tho .virsinian-Piiots Correspondent, In
dulscs in:somc Wholesome Reflections
and Points Moral For the Guidance of
Benighted Followmcn,
Como, N. c., Dec. 1.

He soon will burst an iron bar in two"
Thus runs the hum of the old vam-
pire. song. Like an electric thrill, it
has darted on far and wide, and the
laboring man. whether sweating over
hot iron or steaming in dye houses
whether darling the shuttle among
silken threads or moulding bread for
the living, or clinching nails in collins
for the dcad-has learned the music of
that song. Everywhere there is but
one thought-Trusts- and one Magma
ton, the magrun bonum of the al
chemist, the smell of a golden flavor.
and sound of gong to the top.
When the Corsican had the naughty
idapsburSer by the throat his fallen
majesty promised, ii lie would let 20
ms grip that he would recognizes the
French republic. The avengers proud
reply fell like n thunderclap upon the
imperial ear: Strike that clause from
the treaty. The French republic, like
The sun of heaven. needs no recogni-
ton ~ trust is only II confederation
to protect capital. y union is only q
confederation to protect labor. One is
Just as sensible and as necessary as
the other. Destroy the first and the
other dies. These two mighty giants
are Juggling TO destroy each other.
~ NSt'tii litilt VII Dc ill awful con-
iiict. Both are forces ut work to de-
stroy our national life. The union
needs no recognition from the trusts
1t is now and forever one and insepa-
rable. There is but little danger as
yet 1t is only n cloud the size of n
mans hand rising from the sea, and
only perceptible TO those on the noun
tam brow y union confined to one in
terest can effect but little. \ few bat
talions of Pinkertons, n few Mausers,
n ~ gu if..fz %.
pei the men to work. But suppose
these unions are blended into one SYM
pathetic whole, with one master work
man to direct; suppose that, instead of
Il lew thousands, million of men,
welded for protection from every
branch OF industry. at n preconcerted
signal, strike" The mind is staggered
at the thought
Is it madness to cast this shadow on
the horoscope of the future? 1t would
be no CoNey's rabble to keep off the
grass In Capitol square. 1t would in
augurate a saturnalia of blood and fire
deeper and more red than the flames
that roll from Cotapaxi.
violent abuse of trusts in our
ab!est journals will accomplish but IT.
tie. 1t is not so much general as a
specific intelligence that is needed
This special knowledge will come only
by object lessons. 1t is not the roar OF
the lion. but his growl in close proX-
unity that is to be feared. Whoever is
protected will smile With self COM
placency; whoever is not will do the
growing. The protected class is small
in comparison with the unprotected.
When this dissatisfaction spreads-be-
comes universal-the trusts must either
go or dire will be the disasters.
The imperial masters in the ancient
world fed their lampreys upon the
bodies Of their slaughtered slaves and
mortified the nro WING hack n
the victims from so glorious sacrifice
-preferring an easier road to the Ely
sian fields. Our modern molocks have
adopted the sweating process. They
prefer sweat to blood, knowing that
every pearly dewdrop of the liquid
amber will chrystaliZe into ingots of
gold. with which they can build coll
leges, dispense charity and thereby
bride old Peter at the pearly gate. y
corner. we'll protected, is an admirable
point from which to conduct an often
sive campaign. \ corner means only
two things when dealing in the neces-
sites of life. First, only many thous-
and more furnishing, shivering
wretches: second, only a few made
richer and more comfortable.
In the roar of q cyclone there is
mad rush for safety from tumbllng
houses and whirling trees. and the
devil takes the hindmost. The retro
SDeCt SHOWS tTe IulllS dloilS ITO Nlui
pathway. In Van Buren's admins
tration 1.-THE Abolition Society was
formed. An interval of only twenty
one years passed before the civil war
drank deep draughts of blood from
Northern and Southern veins. The
Battle of Tours decided the religious
destiny of Europe. The combatants
knew nothing of the mighty issue at
stake. Even the great captains Carl
MarteI. or Abd-el- Rahman. dreamed o.
the possibilities of that bloody field.
Yet At checked the Saracens and hurled
them back. bleeding and beaten. over
the Pyrrenees: it checkmated Solomon.
the magnificent, under the walls of
Vienna, and sent him to cover on the
shores of his golden sea. thus saving
the European world for progress and
for Christ.
"A pebble in n streamlet scant
| Has turned the course of many n
river;
a blood drop on the baby plant
May warp its giant growth forever"
| We read the future in the light of the
past History is the repository of hu-
man wisdom and of all human knowl-
| edge Without history we know moth
| ing; with it we know all things. Men
| are reading, men are thinking They
are searching in this graveyard for the
secrets of progress ana Tor the causes
| of death. Another Ambrose Pare
will arise and bind up the bleeding
| limbs of humanity without the appli
| cation of hot iron or sweat shops.
| Great events from little causes spring.
! The right of dover was the result of
the Imprisonment and the ransom OF
England's first Richard. When the
wealth of o nation is confined to a few.
its government is n plutoeracy: when
tie intelligence OF n people is confined
TO a learned few, that government is
an aristocracy. Men at times overleap
the mark and fall on the other side