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Show THE GATHERING STORM. At short intervals, ever since 1873, there hB been noticed a disposition among the laborers to Btrike and often with decided manifestations of law lessnese and dicreard tor the property prop-erty and interests of frreat corporations, eepecially the railroads. At first, or rather for the lirst ten or fifteen years, even the laborers themselves did not understand the cause of the misery which oppressed them. Within the last year great light has been thrown upon the trouble and all understand perfectly that the underlieing trouble has been all alone a too rapid lessening lessen-ing of the volume of comeatable money among the masses, and consequently a too small supply to meet the conditions condi-tions of a commerce expanding with a wonderful rapidity demanding a greater expansion of currency rather than a lessening volume and harder conditions. The one policy is for the rich the other for the poor. It is need-. need-. Jess to say that in such a struggle the rich, have triumphed and the poor are vanquished. This cause, and this alone has set up an irritation between the parties to the struezle which can not be cured save by a reversal of policy pol-icy and a better living chance for the wage workers of the land. They are in vast majority, and the poor, tired workers have grown desperate and the still lessening chance of being able to feed, clothe and school their children. They have become desperate, yet, like the law-loving Anglo-Saxon race from which they sprang, they are endeavoring endeavor-ing to rectify the conditions prevailing by a etrong, dignified efiort within the pale of law. This lawful effort will continue until hope has fled and despair has driven its iron to the vitals of the people, v Then other scenes will be t Other efforts will be made outside the pale of law. Blood will flow, misery will run rampant, and ruin, anarchy and destruction will overwhelm our once happy land. Daring all the years since demonetization occurred, and through each national administration the senate, congress and the administration adminis-tration has ignored the conditions pre-yalling pre-yalling until now the storm is about to break and the diepatches tell ub that both houses of congress begin to express ex-press the fear that they must have felt for the last nineteen years. It is a hopeful sign. Their indifference to the distresses of the people has been ominous to all thinking and patri otic observers. Strikes everywhere, not those of a few men only, but of bodies of men hundreds of thousands strong. They are in such force that they are able to demand and command for that matter, attention to their grievances. ! The black wing of war is stretched over us. The lightning of the storm clouds flash and dart from every quarter of the heavens. Indeed is the storm approaching and in an appalling j shape. Something must be done and that right speedily or it will soon break in irrosistable force and then it will, we fear, be forever impossible to avert the doom of anarchy, blood and i wretchedness. The government should reflect upon the character of the men engaged in this still lawful and bloodless blood-less revolution. They will exhaust! eyery hope, but after that they will be come the awful engines of blood and destruction. The lesson of the French revolution is still betore our eyes. Let us govern ourselves in the light of that awful bit of history and be benefited by it to the extent that we may return by the Ekortest lines of march to the happy old times when the government whb blind to the condition of the man or men who were engaged in the work of building up the land, when the poor were the full equal of the rich, before the authority of govern-. govern-. , inent. We say it with a profound conviction con-viction of its entire truth, that whenever when-ever the blood of the first victim has ; been poured out upon the ground the Etruggle will commence and end not until the moral fibre of this nation of law-abiding people will be under mob-law mob-law from one end of it to the other. |