The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-10-04
OFFICIAL PAPER KEAOSHA COUNTY
Cause and Effect.

Despite the fact that Senator Till
man, of South Carolina, affirmed that
a Democratic president Of the United
States once precipitated panic for
political purpose, there are few people
that will readily believe that any man
of ordinary intelligence, whether
Democrat or Republican, would, for
the sole purpose of promoting pol1t1-
cal project, either deliberately preclp1-
tate panic or instigate riot. 1t is
charged by some that the vicious
attack of the mob on Governor Roose-
welt in Victor, Colo, was the work OF
political leaders seeking to defeat the
purpose of Col. Roosevelt, the can
didate for the Vice-Presidency on the
Republican ticket, by attempting to
make it appear that the working peo-
pie of Colorado and the West are OPP
posed to Mr.. Roosevelt. The idea is
spurned by most reasonable men
among the Democrats, and 1T is not re-
ceived with approval by Republicans.
It is highly improbable that political
leader would have been so short sight
ed, even if he were sufficiently short
on principle, as to have committed such
a b1under.
Nevertheless, with all the improoa-
bi1ity that attaches to the charge
that political leaders are the direct in
stigators of the attack on Gov. Roose.
welt, it is not unjust to charge the
leading Democratic spirits with the in
direct responsibility for the violence.
When Senator Ti11man spoke in this
city not long since he told the working
men, by inference, that it was the
purpose of capital to enslave. He SAID
that the black man of the South was
kept supplied with full dinner pail be-
cause ne was of value to his owner.
He limited at greatarmy being raised
by the capital, which he charged, con-
trol1ed the Republican party, for the
purpose of coercing labor. John P.
A1tge1d, when governor Of Illinois,
gave riot precedence over law, and even
that peerless leader of Democracy, w.
7. Rrvan. exhausted his match1ess e1o-
ouence- to innocu1ate labor with the
fatal and wicked fancy that capital
sought to 'crucify it upon a cross of
gold.' With the leaders of Democracy
teaching such doctrines, is an out
break of labor against the alleged in
strument of the capital, that is to en-
slave and cruelty upon cross of gold,
a surprise? It is only the natural and
legitimate outgrowth of Democratic
teaching, that tend to set class
against class and place labor and
capital in the wholly false and IRA
tiona1 and Obstructive position of
eternal war, one with the other.
Senator Til1man, admittingithe truth
of record, that the condition of the
1aboring man is steadily Improving;
that his wages and his living and his
independence are at a higher degree
than ever before; that the troubles
between labor and capital are
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more susceptible to arbitration,
still goes about the country in the
name of Democracy sewing the seeds
of hatred and anarchy wherever they
may take 1odgment by a blind appeal
to latent prejudice, seeking to undo all
that the patience and common sense of
labor, capital and public have accom-
p1ished through the course Of years. is
it a wonder that mob violence should
break out, bringing ignominy upon
the Democratic party? The nature of
our government and the character of
its people make such condition as
the leaders of Democracy represent an
absurd impossibi1ity, but so long as
such men as Bryan, Tillman, A1tge1d
and the rest, untrue to their own bet
ter Judgment, exert themselves to stir
up class strife mobs and riots will in
crease apace and the day of peaceful
and mutually profitable adjustment OF
the questions that concern employer
and employed will be indefinitely post
poned.
Collapse of Government.