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Show i THE RISLNG OF THE PEOPLE. The French revolution commenced just as the one is commencing now which we will be compelled to face in the near future. A few men in Lyons and Marseilles banded together to march to Paris to redress the wrongs inflicted by the Bourbons and their gorged an! petted favorites, into whose hands had drifted all the money, honors and privileges which had been filched from the people in the two laet centuries cen-turies just preceeding. The government, govern-ment, the king and aristocrats laughed the exhibition of the diepleasure of the' people to scorn. Instead of adopting measures of relief they jeered at and mocked them, making broad dirty jests of their distresses. Two years from that day the government was overthrown, over-thrown, the king was beheaded with several members of the royal family and a huge number of these same rich and mocking aristocrats. Blood of the best of the French people flowed i every part of the kingdom. "What was then poseible in France is eminently possible in the United States today. Even at that day there was found in Europe many nations which, for political poli-tical reasons, sympathized with the people. In our case there would be the sympathy, not real, of all despotic 3 European governments, not that they cared more tor the revolutionists but that they would second any movement likelv to disrupt the hated republican form of government which prevails here. Let this war start and maintain itself for three months and, for the reasons given above, it would be beyond be-yond the control of any force the government gov-ernment could project against it. So many thousands of angry, dissatisfied dis-satisfied and hungry men banded together to-gether for any purpose is a dangerous circumstance! : Brute force is one way to meet it. Graceful concession is another an-other and we believe the best. ' Something Some-thing is wrong, radically wrong in the policy of the government which has caused the distresses out of which these Industrial armies are grown. Find that evil, find the wrong 1 and right it and that too, by a real reform, not by some makeshift matter like ail the measures reBorted ' to since' the first great ein against the people was committed in 1S73. Shoddy means have been "tried. : They have been proven inadequate.1 Let fcs have some thing ttfalf lLet us cut" loose from tie European idea. Let us run our com-I com-I merce,our finances and our business wunout reierence to tnem ana tne prosperity '"which reigned before we went 'into1 these entangling 'alliances with them'-wlll Teturrrto ns again. " Let the people reign. Let us refuse longer to follow Rothechilds, Lombard Btreet or the German Shy locks and the people will grow quiet again. Follow these malign advisors further and the dreadful scenes of tbe French 'revolt tion will be re pea ced' here.' From all points of the cbmpass'ai'e these 'armies marching, converging at Washington. There is danger 'underlying any cause which produces effects like these. ' We laugh now as did Louis the 16th. Let us beware or we will certainly mourn as he did later on.' Pass a real tariff retorm bill and re-monetize re-monetize silver and these distresses will dissolve or fly away as do the clouds 'of the morning before the advancing ad-vancing king of day.1 Giye' the poor a chance. Lift the burden3 of taxation from their shoulders and place it upon those of the rich, is all that is necessary to reduce all this threatening hostility will be quickly reduced to absolute and perfect loyalty. |