Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-11
Thirsting for Gore.

The people OF this country have thus
far known very little about socialism,.
Outside of the realistic touches brought
out by the labor riots of TT it has been
simply a passing word, hardly thought
of except as referred to by the news
papers. True there have been organiza-
tons in the larger cities sailing under
the red banner of social equality but as
these have confined their bloodthirsti-
ness to attacks upon schooners of beer
and their warlike schemes to the recesses
of dingy easements or dimly lighted
halls, but little attention has been paid
their mouthings.
But a new era seems to have dawned
upon socialism in this country in the ad-
vent of q certain foul mouthed, blatant
blatherskite, a certain Johann Most,
whose chief claim on notoriety up to the
present has been his summarily squelch-
ing by the English government for ap-
plauding in a sheet, published by him,
the assassination of the Gar and other
fiendish plots INDUCED in by continental
communists. That none may mis-
understand his mission and know just
what to expect, he has been kind enough
to lay down his plan for the regenera-
ton of the world briefly and distinctly.
In his first speech delivered in Chicago
in response to a welcome given him by
the socialists of that city he said:
my chief motive in coming here,
"is to establish q socialistic pro-
paganda. Every country in Europe
is alive with socialists, and the time is
not far distant when their power will be
felt. We expect to accomplish our
plans by revolution. The people must
be educated up to q knowledge of their
rights and a conception OF their power.
The people must govern. Assassination
is q concomitant of revolution, if you
choose to call the forcible removal of
Objectionable and insufferable oppres-
sion assassination. The day will come
when tyrants will tremble. Some of
them do now, but the elimination will
be SO destructive a blow that rehabilita-
ton will be impossible. The nihilists,
the archists and all classes of agitators
and the discontinued are with us. A
revolution must come, and probably
Russia will be the first to experience its
force. Germany will follow, and Eng
land, too, will be subjected to the tidal
rave. England will most likely be the
last visited, but it must inevitably com
Among the objects of my visit to this
country is the naturalization Of land
and of capital"
At another time, later, he got down
into the blood curdling details in the
following manner, as reported in a
Chicago paper.
Herr Johann Most delivered a most
outspeken so cialistic speech in the
northwestern portion Of the city to-
night. The only thing to be done, he
said, was to kill. The trouble in the
French revolution was when the people
got the upper hand they stopped killing
They should have kept on. The people
here must kill; must open the banks to
whatever they wanted. The bankers
and capitalists must be set to work on
the streets. His talk was received with
the most %uproarious applause.
Notwithstanding the fierceness Of his
~invective and the CORY nature Of his re-
marks it is extremely doubtful If they
have any effect upon that portion of the
lower classes who can read and think,
the mechanics and artisans of the large
cities. This class may have and hold
certain ideas as regards labor and capt.
tai but they are too well acquainted
with our system of government and the
chances it offers for peaceful revolution
against oppression of any sort to engage
in schemes such as outlined by Most.
The real danger lies in the foreign Gle
which cannot read and does not
think, around whom form the lowest
eager for anything that offers .
plan for plumber secure from the swift
visitation Of the laws penalties. Upon
his class the brsggidocio mouthngs Of !