Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-15
Srun County Register
The Chicago Advocates of MUIR
der.

$
We read with pain and shame the re-
ports of the speeches at the socialistic
meeting in Chicago on Sunday. Men
and women stood up before hundreds
of people and announced their desire,ifl
not their purpose to become, cowardly
murderers.
The capitalists, said one of the speak
ers, named Griffin, must take the nom
capitalists into partnership, ''or else,
with the assistance of dynamite, leave
the world" Another bloodthirsty or
ator advocated murder as remedy for
social ills, and took no pains to guard
his words. Even women applauded
these diaholical sentiments, and, more
than that, went further than the men
in declaring murderous impulses. Miss
Lee said that she was ready to should
er musket to kill "a mean, dirty, aw
full capitalist" Mrs. Parsons said that
she was as able as her husband to-
throw dynamite effectively, and she
advised ministers of the gentle and low
ing Gospel to tell their parshioners to
trust in dynamite" instead of tto trust
in God"
Such bloodthirstiness and such bias
phemy are unspeakably shocking, es-
pecially when they are uttered by
women. But the language used was
that of insanity, and for the time, at
least, the speakers were downright lu-
natics. Yet we are glad that the meet
ing was allowed to go on undisturbed,
for the frantic orators blew off steam,
and so We're less dangerous characters
in civilized community. Besides, it
is well for the people to know just what
are the feelings of these crazy monsters
who are SO much enamored of blood
and murder. The horror excited by
such boastfully proclaimed sentiments
will be almost universal among those
they would convert to their criminal
creed; and labor will be spared the
fearful injury the advocates of assas-
sination would infiict on it.
Meantime, in hundreds of savings
banks many thousand of capitalists are
accommodating the money which, ac-
cording to this creed, should doom
them to brutal assassination. Every
prudent and Woodworking man is do
ing his best to make himself capital
lst, and the effort renders him better
citizen and more self-respectful being.
1t encourages thrift, sobriety, and or
der, and saves the man from many
temptations. But because of his self
control and wise foresight these Chica-
go lunatics would put dynamite in his
path to blow him up.
1t is capital aDd the organization of
capital which give him work and bring
within his reach the best fruits OF civ
ilization; yet these bloodthirsty scoun-
drels ask him to kill the capitalists and
drive the money from the land. All
that the world has gained by centuries
of peaceful industry they would destroy
with dynamite, turning society into a
pandemonium. They would change
the workman from an honorable Amer
which to right his wrongs and express
his sentiments, into dastardly mid
night assassin.
And what do they want to bring
about? They do not know themselves.
They are ignorant of the philosophy OF
the socialism of which they pirate.
Meantime, true and desira BILE socialism
is quietly, but surely, advancing in ev-
cry enlightened country. Russia aside,
political freedom has been won through
out Europe, and it has always been the
foundation of this republic. Now, we
see very clearly that, instead of the
contest for political rights which has
occupied this century, the twentieth
century will witness prolonged effort
for social advancement and social
emancipation; and in that struggle cap
ital and labor will find themselves al
lies, and not antagonists.
The organization of labor during the
last generation has been carried to a
perfection which promises the best re-
suits. The signs that cooperation in
industry is coming are already distinct,
but the change will be beset with diff
culties and complications which will
require time and experiment to bring
it about. Still, we see that in France,
in England, and in this country indus
trial partnerships are even now work
ing well, and capitalists are metlitating
whether their own prosperity does not
require that they should come to better
terms with labor.
AT the same time the workmen are
more and more establishing societies
for self-protection and to provide for
the necessities of their members in
times of need. The management of
such associations eniarges TIE sphere
of their activities, broadens their minds,
and prepares them for the SHIRE in
great industrial undertakings which
they are likely to have in the future.
And, while they are thus practically
OF work to improve their condition and
quad themselves against aggression,
the most thoughtful students of social
problems are at work to devise plans
for their benefit. and capital listens to
suggestions and heeds counsel which
once 1t would have secuted as absurd
or impudent. 8
Yet as remedy for social evils these
Chicago advocates of murder ask the
workmen to destroy all that they have
gained in order to wreak revenge OIL,
on the capital which employs them.
Il