Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-31

who had honored him second time
with the highest Office in their gift
Men of Maine, we assert here in this
hallOwcd presence, such nest Of vipers
would not he permitted to exist an hour
in the South,
For six months Congress has debated
Il bill to protect the life Of the President
from Anarchistic assassination. and is
unable to agree upon a remedy for one Of
the gravcst dangers to our free institu-
lions.
There are ether questions which arrest
The attention of the thoughtful lover of
his country The vast accumulation of
riches in the hands Of a few brings with
ii a power and influence for good or evil
that cannot be measured. We are not
unmindfui that the race for wealth is
open for all hut many are handicapped
by dtsuGaliiications. The gigantic trusts
which dominate trade, transportation and
manufacture are not without their clu-
quent and hOnJred apologists; under the
mellilluous titles Of Community of III
tcrtSt,' benevolent TrGsteeship."
Economy of administration, etc. they
have luilcd opposition to sleep, but the
most conservative Of our citizenship ask
what is 10 be the end of all this? 1t the
era Of governmental ownership Of tn
railroads, telegraph, telephone and all
other public utilities at hand? From this
10 Socialism with lis lcyeiling tendencies.
its destruction of the inventive and pro-
Srcssivc spirit Of America, is only a Ster.
But the Millionaire, in his pursc-proud
going to do about it?' Did we not lawful
~ obtain our wealth? 1t was a brutal
vulgar leader Or 4 thieving corrupt Ole
garchy dominating the great metropolis
IF the Nation who asked the same inso-
ent question The people answered this
ucry by sending him to the IIenitentiary
M Iii. hnrIp pf pp1itignI Va "a
Its held together by the cohesion of
public plumber. to the four winds Of
Ieaven- We beg to remind our pluto
rats that at one time in the history OF
GRANGE, wealth was concentrated in rci-
ttively fewer hands than it is now in
America. Srhc aristocracy, with lordly
arrogance. treated the common people as
heir slaves or puppets and the mass of
the citizenship Of the kingdom became
rs dumb driven cattle Dickens great
romance, the Tale Of Two Cities" de-
licts this period most graphically. Real
zing the coming of the storm the haush-
~ courtlers said After us the deluge"
When the tempest broke, il was an awful
'atyclasm of revolution and anarchy
while the guillotine claimed its victims
by the thousands, whose only crime was
that they were aristocratS, until the mob
was drunken with the blood of the slain
and a nation revealed in the mad orsie
of crime. When the awful work was
over. the wealth was either scattered as
never before or had disappeared before
the torch of the pillager Ca ira.'-"Lct
the fire fair was the cry of the infuriat-
cd people, and little survived the conia-
grafton.
But we need not 20 so far from home
for lessons. The slave holding aristroc
racy of the South in 1861 were cntrenched
behind a wealth greater than the B1ur-
bons of France, but in 1865 the land alone
remained with the blackened walls Of
their once happy homes and princely sur
roundings.
But we must not be pcssimistic on Dec
Grafton day, God who directed our IA
theirs and spared the veterans before III
through four years of awful carnage, is
still our God. He reigns. and will forever
reign, and in His hands are all the cor
rers of the earth.
We are assembled to honor the mem
DRY of the three hundred thousand men
who fell on the field or died of disease
i'm the Civil War. to glory in the patriot
ism of nearly three million men VINO
served in the armies of the Union. At its
close, foreign critics freely prophesicd
that the vast armies would have to be