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the victims having been members of
the nobility.
From 1789 to 1793, conditions dif
fering little from anarchy prevailed.
In 1795 affairs were shaped into some
sort of order and system when the
republic was organized. In 1804,
Bonaparte, who had been made First
Consul, was crowned Emperor, to
wield the imperial power not only
over France, but over a large part of
the continent of Europe, until his
final overthrow in 1815.
In view of the state of affairs now
existing in Russia, it is worth while
to note that anarchy reigned in
France for five years; a sort of re
public was maintained for nine years
following, and this gave place to gov
ernment by an Emperor whose power
lasted for about ten years.
It is not likely that the Russian
people will get control of their coun
try for some years to come. But
when the Government shall be over
thrown, there will be a period of
frightful disorder, wholesale slaugh
ter and pillage. Finally the people
will be glutted with blood, and will
realize that the revolution is bring
ing them no benefit, while the rob
bers and desperadoes who figure as
leaders are bent only on securing
their own advancement and feather
ing their own nests at the general
cost. Then the people will tire of a
state of things in which general vio
lence, disorder and wholesale rob
bery are the rule, and they will cry
out for a government that will bring
order, security for rights and prop
erty, and they will crown another
czar.
Revolutions are extremely attract
ive to an oppressed people because
every individual hopes to get some
thing out of the ruins of the old gov
ernmental fabric. It takes some time
for people to realize that the masses
get no immediate individual benefit,
while hordes of plunderers and self
seekers get away with the spoils, and
that almost any sort of government
which enforces order is better than
mob rule.
More than a century has passed
away since the first blow for French
liberty was struck. Since then
France has had two emperors, sev
eral kings and several revolutions,
and all this has been introductory
to the present Republic, which only
dates from the downfall of Napoleon
111., at the hands of the victorious
Germans in 1871. When the inhabi
tants of the earth shall be' truly
fitted to be free men, and for a prop
er use of constitutional liberty, they
will be ready to establish “the Par
liament of Man and the Federation
of the World.” —New Orleans Picay
une.
THE FLESH POTS OF EGYPT.
Moses was the high court of ap
peal in matters of dispute between
the children of Israel, but God had
to perform some wonderful miracles
before they would recognize him as
their leader and friend. Many of
them would have preferred to remain
near the flesh pots of Egypt and be
slaves for the Egyptians than to
put forth any effort and privation
to become a free people in a land
flowing with milk and honey—God’s
promised land. The people today
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are very much like the Israelites
were at that time. The poor wage
slaves and workers throughout the
land prefer to fawn before the cap
italists and vote as the capitalists
say for them to vote, rather than
take the risk of offending the capi
talists and being cut off from small
favors —the “flesh pots” of Egypt.
It seems it will take miracles from
God to arouse these wage slaves to
the realization that if they would act
and vote independently for them
selves and their children instead of
for the capitalists and their inter
ests; if they would be willing to be
snubbed and cursed and have the
“flesh pots” withdrawn for a short
season they would soon be able to
emerge from wage slavery and be
come free men. How long will it
be until the farmer and wage worker
will understand that the things
which are good for the capitalist are
not good for him 1 ? If the capitalists
prosper he loses the fruits of his la
bor, for capital is only the profit
taken from labor.
Will the farmer and laborer get
wise or will they still cling to the
“flesh pots” of Egypt? If the capi
talists would divide the profit it would
be different, but they do not divide.
As a rule these human parasites are
never satisfied with less than all of
it. Capital is never willing to allow
labor a profit. They act as though
they feel that a stinted living is all
to which labor is entitled. The cap
italist is never willing to grant equal
rights to all. They believe in special
privileges. They want courts and
judges and clerks and sheriffs and
treasurers and assessors who will
grant them special favors and priv
ileges to which labor is denied. They
feel like it is right for them to live
on the fat of the land while labor
lives on the husks. Ho, ye slaves!
Wake up!—Weekly Sentinel.
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, A move is on foot to in
duce foreign immigrants to the
South; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the members of
Forsyth county Union oppose such
immigration on the grounds that it
would be detrimental to the best in
terest of all laboring people. Be it
further
Resolved, That we ask our repre
sentatives, both State and National,
to use their influence against any
legislation favorable to foreign im
migration.
(Signed)
G. G. HUTCHINS,
B. H. HULSEY,
S. J. SMITH,
Committee.
Done in open lodge and signed by
order of the same.
This July 4, 1907.
N. T. PIRKLE, Pres.,
C. 0. WHEELER, Sec.
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