an increased share of the joint product is being carefully and shaped for a political assault upon society the leaders with the carelessness of do not hesitate for an instant to publish their intentions to the world they intend to direct the labor revolt to the capture of the political machinery of society with the political machinery once in their hands which will also give them the control of the police the army the navy and the courts they will with or without all the possessions of the class which are used in the production the class struggle and distribution of the necessaries and luxuries of life by this they mean to apply the law of eminent domain to the land and to extend the law of eminent domain till it embraces the mines the the and the ocean in short they intend to destroy present day society which they contend is run in the interest of another class and from the materials to a new society which will be run in their interest on the other hand the class is beginning to grow conscious of itself and of the struggle which is being it is already forming offensive and while some of the most prominent figures in the nation are preparing to lead it in the attack upon the class struggle the question to be solved is not one of projected nor it is a question of might whichever class is to win will win by virtue of superior strength for the workers are beginning to say as they said to mr be damned in their own they find no sanction for continuing the individual struggle for the of the as mr has said they want more and more and more the import of mr s plan of the present generation putting up with less in order that race may be projected into a remote future has no bearing upon their actions they refuse to be the glad so described by it remains to be seen how promptly the the class struggle class will respond to the call to arms upon its rests its existence for if it sits idly by that what ought not to be cannot be it will find the roof beams crashing about its head the class is in the and bids fair to be if it does not put a stop to the vast being by its enemy it is no longer a question of whether or not there is a class struggle the question now is what will be the of the class struggle � the tramp mr francis o general of police speaking of the tramp says � despite the most police a great city will have a certain number of to shelter through the winter despite � mark the word a confession of organized helplessness as against necessity if police are and yet fail then that which makes them fail namely the tramp must have still more reasons for succeeding this being so it should be of interest to inquire into these the tramp reasons attempt to discover why the nameless and sets at naught the right arm of the power of our great cities why all that is weak and worthless is stronger than all that is strong and of value mn o is a man of wide experience on the subject of he may be called a as he says of himself as an old time desk and police captain i have had almost unlimited opportunity to study and this class of floating population which seeks the city in winter and abroad through the country in the spring he then continues this experience the lesson that the vast majority of these are of the class with whom a life of is a chosen the tramp means of living without work not only is it to be inferred from this that is a large class in society which lives without work for mr s testimony further shows that this class is forced to live without work he says i have been astonished at the multitude of those who have unfortunately engaged in occupations which practically force them to become for at least a third of the year and it is from this class that the are largely i recall a certain winter when it seemed to me that a large portion of the inhabitants of belonged to this army of i was stationed at a police station not far from where an ice harvest was ready for the the ice company advertised the tramp for and the very night this call appeared in the newspapers our station was packed with men who asked shelter in order to be at hand for the morning s work every foot of floor space was given over to these and scores were still and again and it must be confessed that the man who is willing to do honest labor for food and shelter is a rare specimen in this vast army of shabby and tattered who seek the warmth of the city with the coming of the first snow taking into consideration the crowd of honest that mr o station house on the way to the ice cutting it is patent if all were looking for honest labor instead of a small that the honest the tramp would have a far harder task finding something honest to do for food and shelter if the opinion of the honest who mr s station house were asked one could rest confident that each and every man would express a preference for fewer honest on the morrow when he asked the ice for a job and finally mr o says the humane and generous treatment which this city has accorded the great army of has made it the victim of and this well intended policy of kindness has resulted in making the winter of a vast and floating population that is to say because of her 