The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-05-09

| ure In our national life, stand dumb, giving
not word of cheer or sympathy to the gal.
liant Beers, nor utteripg syllable OF con.
tempt for the vampire of nations now suck.
public.
"The moment the Great Republic assumes
rs n lord paramount TO hold any peoDle In
vassalage (euphemize, In the beginning, If you
prefer, and call 1t state OF tutelage) tina,
moment the corrodlng cancer begins Its dead
ly work and the poison Will soon strike the
very vitals of the Republic. The external
forms of free government may remain, bu,
the heart and the spirit, which make free
an empire. and Individual liberty to the
Roman a mere name, the emperors claimed
TO act by authority OF the Roman Senate, and
eecting their tribunes. The legiona o.
Bonaparte shouted for Liberty, equality
fraternity" but became, in the hands o
the Emperor, mere instruments for imposing
servitude.
"The claquers for the new career upon
which II ia declared our country has entered
are olamorous. too. for an increase of the regu
lar army. Professional soldiers have always
in every age and every CLINE, been the great
est instruments for oppression. Their educa
tion and discipline remove them from the
community Of thought and feeling and stand
ards Of life that governs the other members OF
the body polite. No ruler desiring to oppress
q people has ever been able 10 use q citizen
soldery In doing 1t. The militia OF a country
always available for the preservation of order,
are yet stern enemies OF irresponsible power
has been made in Ida no. On the 29th. of April
of last year mine In the Couer d. Alene re-
glon, the property OF the Standard OIL Com.
pany, the most gigantic and powerful trust In
On the3d Of May, nearly twelve months ago,
the Governor of that State, at the instance OF
the Standard OIL magnates, declared c0ndi.
tion OF insurrection to exist In ShOshone
NNIrN AZ ~ nrNl Id h. f0r
troops. They we're furnished, and from that
day to this martial law has prevailed In
Shoshone County, the writ of habeas corpus
suspended. bands OF hired detectives belong
Ing TO the Standard OIL turned loose In the
com munity, men by the undred arrested by
them without process of any kind, detained
for months In the "bull.pen" without the
scintiha OF a criminal charge brought against
them, houses broken open and searched with.
out other warrant than the bayonet and the
strong hand, nobody allowed to work except
on permit issued by a tool of the Governor
and issued only when the applicant will sub
scribe paper repudiating all connection or
sympathy with organized labor, even men
working their own properties without
permit thrown into the "bullpen" without
possibility ofredress until 1t pleases their In
generators TO release them, and permits re.
quired for even typewriters and sisnograph.
"Well may any man take alarm for the future
when such condition OF things exists 10
sovereign State of our Union. How long be-
fore the States will be reduced to the condi-
tion OF mere provinces and the people be
without an effective voice In the govern
ment ;
"We need to study anew the political axiom, ,
/" Eternal vigilance Is the price OF liberty"
Well may the sentinels upon the watch.tow-
ers raise the alarm Of "Imperialism" and
The warning needs TO be
sounded in trumpet tones until the people
shall be walked to a realization OF the danger
TO which the commercial greed now domina.
ting our national councils is leading u.s."