The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-08-11


longer be conceived that people will dream
Of killing one another Their evident inter
est is not in these atrocious conflicts, but in
peace, alliance and fraternity.
(Signed) ALBERT FERME,
JULES CARREr.
And 3Gothers.
THE RESPONSE or w0RKrSGMEN OF ALL NATIONS
TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS
STUDENTS OF Paris We have heard the
| warm appeal made by you to your Italian
and German brothers. We have been
gladdened by it. We have been told that
that brilliant race OF young colIeeians who
are ready to maintain that Just cause, was
dead. More ardently than ever it marches
in the direction Of Social Revolution.
To you, who, amid the blind movement
which drives the Governments on to make
| the people cut each others throats. have
had the courage to utter words of peace and
concord, we say
Yes, with you we execrate war, for il ia
on your shoulders the burden of it falls. il il
we who are mastered by thousands on the
field of battle.
Humanity has experienced enough suffer
ing, It is bent too long beneath the brutaliz-
ing yoke Of force, and it is high time that.
driving every suspicion from the heart and
brain, It should stand erect, and enereeticalIv
call out for justice
Students and young men Of every coun-
tryi We are the disinherited. who hear
the burden Of the day, who produce the
wealth but do not enjoy it, appeal to your
hearts.
Students in medicine, you know better
than all others, our sufferings; you see us
in the hospitals, where we reap the reward
Of life full Of toll and fatigue.
Law students, you know tire law in every
country throws impediments in the way OF
our organization.
Students in philosophy, you whom science
has liberated from every superstition, be-
think you Of the efforts it has cost you to
arrive at this result. How can we, who are
always at work, raise ourselves to gain intel.
Iectual levels?
| Young men, who, like US, have to gain
your livelihood, you too know what We
have to undergo to get our miserable meals
/ We also, like you, mean to have our Com.
cress. 1t will be held at Geneva on the I'd
of September next. We desire to assemble
and discuss the hedious gangrene which i
esting our flesh off, to find out, the remedy
and apply it at all hazards.
J You are young, age has not yet cooled
i y our noble aspirations, you are the hope O.
the future. From the depth of our low
estate, we say to you, come and mix with us
shake our hands which are hardened with
with toll, come and cement our alliance
You will impart to US truths Of science
and We wall impart to you the mysteries o,
our trades. We shall learn to know each
other better and TO like each other more.
The poor man has no country; in every
country he endures the same evils there
fore, he perceives that the sheepfolds ir
which the great have hudded the peoples
in order to enslsve them more conveniently
must be oyerthrown. 1t is this class. youns
linen, this class, that will realize the dream o
the aniable Anarcharsis Cloots, tsthe orator
Of the human race" by establishing tn,
federation Of the people, come, then, and
aid us in accomplishing this great work o
the nineteenth century.
\ Then, indeed, the Social Revolution which
we are waiting for, and which we strive fol
with all our energy, will come to pass
Then man will be not only master of BIZ
person, but Of the fruits of his labor also
FOR privileges viii have vanished, parasites
will have hidden their heads. Then work
Iing people only viii be in respect theu
peace and prosperity will reign over th
lace OF the globe; then, in q word, th,
unity Of the human race will be founded.
y Signed-Dupont. musical instrumen
maker; Lassarsie, hairdresser; Jayet, cabs
met maker; Bessen, machinist Maurice
tailor; Marco, fan maker; Le Lubex, com
rImercial traveller; Eccarius, tailor, Hales
weaver; }. Dutton, sadler, r. Dufton, pat
. tern maker; Williams, joiner; Garter, per
: funer; Weston, joiner; Lsssner, tailor
YarroW, cabinet maker; and others.
| The Central Council Of the Working
/ Imen's International Association snnounc
ylthat the shove address ID open for signa
] ltarss, which willibs pablished, ,--ths o6jse
being 70 show to Europe the disposition
! land aspirstione of ths working claelsus