Year: 1877

> tention The key note was given out last


week by


HENRY WARD BEECHER


and Bishop Simpson, and to-day in every


Methodist and Congregational Church in the


North the burden Of the sermon is to charge


the responsibility of the strikes upon the
!. Catholic Churchl / presume there are a
] great many intelligent readers OF the DEMO


GRAFT who will doubt this statement, unwill-
! ing to believe that any pulpit anywhere could


possibly be defiled with such idiotic sacrilege


But it is solemn fact that the North Metho.


dist and Congregational Churches have seized
{ upon even this agony to use for ammunition
in their crusade against Catholicism
And this in face Of the fact that Bishop
| Taigg did more with his single voice to check
the devastation at Pittsburg than all the
other influences that were at work there com
, bined. Sometimes think that q people who


tolerate ssuch aa areligionism, and suffer them


selves to be guided and controlled by such


idiotic knaves as the men who preach such
, doctrine, do not deserve anything better tha n


the fury Of the mob or the torch Of the incen-
diary.


4 Whatever may be the present financial and
| commercial effects of this movement upon
the country at large, ] can say to my


friends. the people of the South that the


political results will be beneficial to them
in that it will tend to divert the attention OF
the New England demagogues to something


else than their recent task of melting hate


and suspicion between the North and the
South. You will get q long rest and respite from


political persecution. while our sapient law
makers devise ways and means of protecting
their own homes from the torch and their
own persons from the stray bullets and the
cobble stones OF striking mobs.


{, But to return to our mutton. The expe-


rience of the last two weeks has set
Il THE MEN WHO OWN THE COUNTRY


to thinking as they have never thought be-


fore, or, at least, to talking as they have never


been heard to talk heretofore. The made
guacy of the present governmental system TO


combat servile instructions has been forced
home upon the capitalist classes as q fact
= that can no longer be evaded.


1.-THE REGULAR ARMY MUST BE INCREASED


to hundred thousand men, and it must be
done by the next Congressl' exclaimed q
banker in my hearing the other day, in ex-
cited conversation upon the all-absorbing
topic. He uttered the sentiment Of his class


exactly. "There is no dependence on the
, militia" he said; "we must have soldiers
that we can depend onp'


You will hear his words repeated often
enough before the next session Of Congress Is
at an end. And, mark you, the next session


will see q tremendous lobby marsbaled in
Washington to push with all the power of
the combined capital Of the country q meas


ure to increase the regular army; possibly to
: | no QtInupgtp6 nv oU friend 10


excited banker; certainly to double Its pres
ent proportions. You must know that the
capitalist classes of the North are alarmed as
| they never were before. The average citizen


may forget the danger as soon as it is past,
F but not the man of millions. He has seen
THE GHOST OF THE COMMUNE,


and 1t will stalk through his dreams every


night until he can feel with his prototype of
the old world the security of mereenary bay
onets enough to garrison every considerable
How will the South stand on the question Of


increasing the regular army to the proper
tions required to quiet the apprehensions Of
the panic-stricken milliOnaires Of the Nor'th2
Well, this and kindred questions will absorb
the attention of the Yankee demagogue for


some time come. In the meantime you plant


your sugar cane and hoe your cotton in
In peace. Whatever the North may be
able to do with It's labor system, you at least
know that you can control, yours, provided
the Federal government will keep it's fingers
, out of the pie The difference is that while


you ask the Federal government to keep its
labor system, the North IS frantically be-
seeching the same power to intervene and
save it from the fury of it's aboring classes.


That is to say, in the South the property
holding element is also the lighting element
but


IN THE NORTH THE PROPERTY IS OWNED BY
r NON-COMBATANTS,


and the fighting classes are the laborers. 1t


will not be long before these distinctions are
,, made still more patent to the casual observer
than they are now. Pretty soon they will be
{ made SO plain that the wayfaring man, though
? fool, may read and understand them.


In conclusion, let me say word. Perhaps
some who read what / write on this subject
) will imagine that my sympathies are with the
mob, and that my facts are colored thereby.
Not SO. / have no sympathies. I am an ob-
i server Of facts and doubt IL more utterly
disinterested, nay apathetic, observer can be
Q found anywhere. | am satisfied, for my part


with the


9 sEMI-ARIsTocRATIC, sEMI-ANARCHICAL FORM


OF GOVERNMENT,


whose blessings all now enjoy, and wouldn't
sacrifice ten cents to save it from being con.
= verted into commune in one direction OF
0 into a. monarchy in the other, as the case
O might be- | see the facts because I cant
e bluntly because do not see what is to be
! gained by concealing them. But as for SYM
;, pathy, | am absolutely devoid of it, and shal


submit to whatsoever one of these warning
: interests may get the control of affairs. /
t the labor mob wins in the long run / shall
= submit to


THE COMMUNE.


Ii capital can hire mercsnary soldiery
: enough to crush the mob, as it would be
L crushed in England or in France, shall sub
;, nit to the strong central government which
+ will inevitably follow. There is only one
= thing that L will not do: | won't fight fol-
either of them. / fought in the late war tc
q save the Union. And when 1 saw what sort
q OF thing it was that I had helped to save,
concluded wouldn't fight any more. / saw
patriotism turned into Grantism, and thai
g was enough for me. 1t would have beer


enough for respectable dog!


A. c.. BUELL..


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