The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-12
DYsAxIrE is strong to-day at 46c.
arHE DYnAmIrE FOOLS,

aTHE DYNAMITE FOOLS
Above is heading to an editorial in
the last isyle of the Rochester Sunday
Truth, and although the article Is aimed
at the San Francisco Truth, it is intended
to be general in its application to all rev.
olutionary journals, and, as this paper
lays claim to that proud title. | feel
spurred and intend to kick.
The editor of the R. s. Truth, like all
fellows of his stripe, shows barrenness
of information on the subject of the COM
ing revolution, and, instead of producing
one word of argument to prove the posi-
ton of the radical thinkers wrong, takes
refuge behind the ignorance of the mass
of his readers and makes dirty, cowardly
filings at the men who have the sense to
see things in their proper light, and the
nerve to speak plainly their convictions.
! / am not anxious to get into a quarrel
with any man who is working in the in
terest of the masses (howeyer futile his
labor, if he is honestJ, and have Stunned
scores of opportunities for controversies;
but this R. S. Truth man is shade too
\hrash, and |, for one revolutionist, do not
intend to swallow hiS insults, Says this
man, who is evidently cold-blooded
slugger who rivals Sullivan:
j"The man who has not the backbone
and the moral courage and the honesty
to walk up to the polls and vote for his
principles may safely be counted upon
as too great coward to bare his breast to
the bayonet's thrust in armed defense of
those principles He would be whipped
into slavery like cur" F., =
Now, have voted every time there
was an honest ticket in the field, but, in
stead of feeling very much like brave
man as l walked up-and put my bit of
paper in the box, l have, of late years,
felt very considerably like craven and
a fool. AS for the prophesv of what
men of my stripe would do in case of am
"armed defense of those principles" /
have simply to say that 1 would place
more reliance in the courage of one of
them than I would in chat of one hun
dred soft headed ours who dare not use
plain language against the oppression of
the times and discuss remedies that are
known to be efficient, for fear of losing a
subscriber or an advertiser. There is so
little sense in that quotation that do
not care to take up more time with it,
but 1 want to inform the editor of the R.
S. Truth, in passing, that shall continue
to conduct my paper according to my
own ideas and with fearlessness that
would put his election-day bravery to
blush, if 1 have to pull my coat and throw
asuppressor" down the steps, every fif-
teen minutes.
Bullet US keep cool, and look unex-
citedly at what this defender of our pres
ent system of slavery has to say:
Here the ballot is king. There may
be excuse for daggers, bombshells and
dynamite in Russia, but here there can
be no excuse. No journal is the true
friend to labor, no man is the correct ex.
ponent of labor principles, that acts the
part of the dynamite fool"
He read that Russian comparison in
some capitalistic paper. Pm sure that's
where / have seen it before. So "here
the ballot is king?". Yes, buthow about
the apower behind the throne~ Who
is it manipulates the king? Let us see
j what this same R. s. Truth has to say Of
King Ballot as applied by the working
men of its own town. Here it is, taken
from its leading editorial: r
aWhen they take political action it is
ID place in office the friends and tools %
the very monopolies whose encroach
ments they deplore. OF course there
are exceptions to the rule"
What is the natural level which il
finally found by the exceptions to the
ruler" They soon discover that they art
ballot fools, resolve to be so no longer
and become dynamite FOOLS" And why
: is it that workingmen vote for mem who
are dead against their interests? !? 1t Ii
because the ballot has become so de
graded that they no longer have respect
for it, and sell 1t as they would an ole
coat that was fit only for the rag man. II
is because they have voted for years fol
men who rode into power on theil
ballots and then betrayed them. 1t il
because under our present systems the
prices paid for dishonesty buy thei1
choicest selections. 1t is because they
have been SO defrauded by this same bal
lot that they have no more confidence
in it, and are willing to let it go for
little temporary relief from the starva
ton into which this same ballot has de,
luded and is keeping them. And it be.
cause there is not an instance on record
where the laborinR men offa community
were agreed as to the best side Of Q meas
ure upon which to cast their ballot, Il