Edward Bellamy "The Duke of Stockbridge" and "Equality"
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http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-duke-of-stockbridge.html
The book was published by his cousin, Francis Bellamy, author of the
Pledge of Allegiance. http://rexcurry.net/pledgebackward.html
Edward had written his book in 1879 and it was serialized at that
time. Edward waited until 1898 (shortly before Edward's death) to have
it published in full book form. Edward's widow agreed to let Francis
edit it and he also wrote the introduction to the book and the book
was published by Silver, Burdett & Co., where Francis worked as an
editor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
Edward Bellamy is more famous for authoring "Looking Backward" and its
sequel "Equality" in which he promoted the dogma of military socialism
shared by his cousin Francis (see the work of Dr. Rex Curry, author of
"Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). Also see http://rexcurry.net/edward-bellamy-equality-swastika.jpg
and http://rexcurry.net/edward-bellamy-equality-swastika2.jpg
"The Duke of Stockbridge" is set during Shays' Rebellion (1786-87) in
western Massachusetts, what is now the resort of Stockbridge. When
Edward wrote this romance, he chose the episode of the revolt of the
debtor-farmers in 1786 against the harsh creditors and oppressive
government. That revolt helped scare the leaders of the thirteen
colonies into supporting a strong central government seen in the U.S.
Constitution in 1788. Edward's book is sometimes designated as the
most authoritative piece of fiction written about this rebellion.
The hero, Captain Daniel Shays, an ex-Revolutionary officer, and the
majority of men in his rebel ranks were revolutionary soldiers who
were nearly all impoverished through their Revolutionary War services
and were considered rabble rousers by merchants and lawyers.
The Massachusetts' taxes were so heavy that the annual tax per farmer
or mechanic was more money than the average farmer or mechanic made in
over a year. A profitable business for the local lawyers was the
foreclosing on the farmers' or mechanics' property and filling the
jails with those who could not pay their debts. The exasperated
Revolutionary war veteran emptied the jails of their friends and
neighbors and demanded financial relief. The rebellion was put down by
the Massachusetts's government with only a small loss of life but it
scared the ruling classes in the State.
The novel portrays Revolutionary War veterans who believe that they
have traded rule by a king for rule by the rich.
General historical information about Shays' Rebellion:
The American Revolution ended in 1783, but the young republic it
created faced a difficult time. Nowhere was this more evident than to
the farmers of Western Massachusetts. A severe economic depression
forced people unable to pay their debts first into court, then into
jail. These troubles were viewed as arising from the mercantile elite
of Eastern Massachusetts, especially Boston, who demanded hard
currency to pay foreign creditors. The farmers of Western
Massachusetts, after years of frustration, reacted with an armed
uprising that lasted for six months at the end of 1786 and start of
1787.
The Rebellion started with petitions to the government for paper
currency, lower taxes, and judicial reform. When this failed, the
farmers took more drastic measures. The first target of the Rebellion
was the Court of Common Pleas at Northampton, which an armed body of
farmers kept from sitting on August 29th. Similar groups of insurgents
stormed the courts at Worcester, Concord, Taunton, and Great
Barrington in the following weeks. They hoped to prevent further
trials and imprisonment of debtors.
The man who rose to lead the insurgents was Captain Daniel Shays
(1747?-1825), a veteran of the Revolution and a farmer from Pelham.
The Supreme Judicial Court had indicted eleven other leaders for
sedition, more would follow. Shays and 1,500 followers, many wearing
their old Continental Army uniforms with a sprig of hemlock in their
hats, occupied the Springfield Courthouse from September 25th to 28th,
preventing the Supreme Judicial Court from sitting. Governor James
Bowdoin assembled 4,400 militiamen under the command of General
Benjamin Lincoln to defend the courts and protect the Commonwealth.
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Shays and the others insurgents chose the Federal Arsenal in
Springfield to be the next target. General Lincoln marched to defend
the debtor court in Worcester on January 20th. Shays, with 2,000
farmers behind him, assaulted the arsenal on January 25, 1787. General
William Shepard successfully defended the arsenal with 1,200 local
militiamen. The rebels suffered four dead and twenty wounded in the
attack.
General Lincoln soon arrived in Springfield and quickly chased Shays'
army into the neighboring towns. The insurgents were taken completely
by surprise on the morning of February 3rd in Petersham. General
Lincoln had marched his troops through a snowstorm the previous night.
The farmers scattered, and the rebellion was ended. Most of the
insurgents took advantage of a general amnesty and surrendered. Shays
and a few other leaders escaped for a while.
The Supreme Judicial Court soon sentenced fourteen of the rebellion's
leaders, including Shays, to death for treason. They were later
pardoned by the newly elected Governor John Hancock. Only two men,
John Bly and Charles Rose of Berkshire County, were hung for their
part in the Rebellion. A new Massachusetts Legislature in Boston began
to undertake the slow work of reform.
That summer, the Federal Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
created a stronger central government. Shays' Rebellion is considered
the one of the leading causes in the formation of the United States
Constitution.
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bureaucracies. http://rexcurry.net/water.html
The government employs police-state tactics including surveillance
patrols, citations, fines, judicial proceedings and even criminal
charges. http://rexcurry.net/waterdismiss.html
“Government Water Supply” bureaucracies produce water shortages in the
same way the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics produced food
shortages. If bureaucrats were any stupider they would have to be
watered weekly.
Every “Government Water Supply” would create the same shortages,
rationing and tyrannical tactics if it became the "Government Water,
Food, Clothing and Shelter Supply." http://rexcurry.net/waterlaws.html
It is fortunate that food is a free market compared to water, or the
Soviets could have broadcast pictures of Americans standing in line
for food rations. Instead, the Soviets could have broadcast water
rationing and police patrols, and private waters being emptied by
government bureaucracies.
Government rationing leaves extra water for wasteful uses while
defeating profit incentives to develop other sources and solutions.
People who altruistically conserve and who support watering
restrictions are chumps who promote waste by naively propping up the
government's non-market pricing. http://rexcurry.net/water.html
If the media want to solve water shortages, then they should advocate
privatization of all water sources and distribution. Then our wealth
of water will equal that of our food, clothing and shelter, without
soggy socialism, Soviet-style rationing and the police state.
The typical water commentary in television, radio or print is a
constant whine, "if only there were more regulations," "if only there
were more law enforcement officers." It is such a gestapo drone it is
a comedy, made funnier by the complete blindness to the only
meaningful alternative: private property rights and free market
economics.
Of course, government officials never comprehend that they damage
water, just as no socialist government has ever conceded causing
shortages of any other food, clothing, housing or anything.
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The socialist dogma is the same dogma that was touted in the late 19th
century by National Socialists in the USA. Francis Bellamy (author of
the "Pledge of Allegiance") and his cousin and cohort Edward Bellamy
(author of the pathetic book "Looking Backward") wanted the government
to take over all food, clothing, shelter, goods and services and
create an "industrial army" to impose their "military socialism." See
the video documentary at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
That was the motiviation behind Francis Bellamy's "Pledge of
Allegiance" to the flag, the origin of the stiff-armed salute adopted
later by the National Socialist German Workers Party (see the work of
the historian Dr. Rex Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
It led to the use of the swastika as S-letters for "socialism" on the
flag under German National Socialism. http://rexcurry.net/swastika3swastika.jpg
It is the same dogma that led to the socialist Wholecaust (of which
the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million killed under the former Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples' Republic
of China; ~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers'
Party. http://rexcurry.net/socialists.html
The environment will be made safer by reducing government until soggy
socialism (and all socialism) ends. As Libertarians and Objectivists
say, there is no reason why free enterprise and private property
rights should end at the water's edge. The color of a healthy
environment and the color of money are the same. Capitalists are the
true "greens" of the environmental movement, and only private property
rights make that clear.
As Libertarians and Objectivists say, "Water is too precious to have
the government involved."
On May 20, 11:48 am, News Journalism <news.journal...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The book The Duke of Stockbridge, was authored by Edward Bellamy.http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-duke-of-stockbridge.html
>
> The book was published by his cousin, Francis Bellamy, author of the
> Pledge of Allegiance.http://rexcurry.net/pledgebackward.html
>
> Edward had written his book in 1879 and it was serialized at that
> time. Edward waited until 1898 (shortly before Edward's death) to have
> it published in full book form. Edward's widow agreed to let Francis
> edit it and he also wrote the introduction to the book and the book
> was published by Silver, Burdett & Co., where Francis worked as an
> editor.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
>
> Edward Bellamy is more famous for authoring "Looking Backward" and its
> sequel "Equality" in which he promoted the dogma of military socialism
> shared by his cousin Francis (see the work of Dr.RexCurry, author of
> "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). Also seehttp://rexcurry.net/edward-bellamy-equality-swastika.jpg
> andhttp://rexcurry.net/edward-bellamy-equality-swastika2.jpg