The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-12
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Above is the name Of new weekly
journal, published at Dallas Texas. Its
full title is "The Tocsin, Herald of the
Coming Revolution and the first notes
blown by this warlike instrument indi-
cate the appropriateness of the name.
The editor is George N. Beach. | vel
come the Tocsin and hope its notes may
be heard throughout the length and
breadth of the land
To you, Comrade George, extend my
best hand, and as, in Imagination. | clasp
yours, 1 feel the strengthening influences
of an atmosphere which yibrates with
the cheerful, courageous tones of the
Tocsin's rally call, and
81 think hear little bird that sings
The people by and by will be the stronger
Following is the salutory of the Tocsin.
I give it entire, as to cut so good a thing
would mari it:
"The Tocsin is what its narle indicates
IAN alarm, to arouse the laborers and
producers from that dangerous and leth-
argic indifference that threatens to result
in their total enslavement; herald to
announce and proclaim the revolution
now upon us; warning to all men to arm
and prepare for the coming struggle. The
laborers of the whole earth are organiz-
ing to accomplish their emancipation by
armed international revolt, and every
man who reads these lines must play
his part in the tragedy soon to be enact
ed. The revolutionists are striving for
Justice, liberty and right, and they must
and will win. Too long has labor bowed
the knee to rent, profit and interest; too
long has self-styled labor advocates phil
osophized and moralized upon the rights
and wrongs of labor. Now, the day Of
reckoning is at hand. Labor demands
the wealth itproduces. 1t demands that
the government shall cooperate with the
poor citizen instead of the rich syndicate.
1t demands the total abolition of the
conditions, or the system, that produces
5000 millionaires and so, 100000 paupers.
1t demands thatlall men,shall have equal
rights in those natural elements which
none can own. 1t demands that the
values produced by men associating to-
gether shall be credited to and not charg-
ed against them. Labor demands justice
for all men, and the Tocsin will voice
these demands.
"Without earnest, active efforts to ac-
quaint the producers of the world with
the justice of their cause, the revolution
lists would find themselves opposed by
thousands and hundreds of thousands of
their own brethren, armed and urged
into the combat by the paid tools of their
oppressors, and the workers of the world
would thus in blind fury destroy each
other, while their common enemies
would, from safe distance, look on and
applaud. Every laborer, every producer,
must be learned that the conflict is un-
dertaken for his benefit, and that he has
nothing to fear and everything to hope
from Socialism. This the Tocsin will
strive to teach them. Then if any be so
base as to take the gold of the loafng
tyrants in payment for his brothers
blood, !, he will richly merit the fate he
will surely meet. s- f..
"The Tocsin is not the organ of the
Revolutionary Socialists; tits their friend.
And it is the friend of eyerv organiza-
ton, of whatever name that has for its
object the advancement of the cause of
the toiler. 1t is the organ or mouthplece
of the editor only, and he alone is re-
sponsible for what appears in its
columns" ...-