The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-04
DYNAMITE.
Its Voice the Only Voice that
0ppressors of the People
Can Understand.
Anarchists Proclaim With no I'm
certain Sound that the eSystem
Must Go.

p
Must Go.
The Disinherfted Must Work On
Their Own Salvation in Their
Own Way.
For The Enquirer.
We often meet with class of writers
and debaters who seem simply to write
or speak to kill time or fill up space
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WREN be was convinced he argued STILL
or like the individual who laid the horse
was fifteen feet high, and stuck to it be.
cause he had said SO. And these people
it will be observed, III order to make out
a "case," will dive into deep" scientific
learning" having no bearing in the
case, or wade through dry historic rub
bish which any school boy or girl ought
to know by heart FIVE years after they
enter school-house, and fetch forth
their wonderful problems. If there be
any analogous cases to the above, in the
labor movement, who claim to be finding
fault with the Anarchists because they
fail to come forward and present their
"plan" for the reconstruction of society,
1t would be asking too much, for space in
labor paper to answer them. But that
this is not altogether the case, Anarchists
must admit. ..
Speaking from the standpoint of an
Anarchist, so far as ] understand the
theory or doctrine, whichever you have
mind to call it, will endeavor to, in
so far as the short space of a newspaper
article'will admit, set the minds of our
comrades at ease; at least, as regards our
being lot of "revengers" whose only
aim it is to murder capitalists, and leave
the system intact which produced them.
There are two demurrers entered
against Anarchy, namely, chat they aim
their warfare against individuals, tcapi-
talists) and not the system of which the
individual is only the outgrowth; and
after destroying everything have moth
ing to put in the place thereof. Now
those who assert, in effect, that Anarch-
lists are lot of thirsty blood-drinkers,
who go MP and down this broad earth,
bowling themselves hoarse for gore, who
would murder capitalist on sight and
leave the system which produces him
undisturbed, have certainly gone outside
of Anarchistic literature and manufac-
tured their statements out of whole
cloth.
ALI Anarchistic documents, of which 1
haye any knowledge, proclaim in no un-
certain language that "the system must
co." and that if, in this removing pro-
cess, some tyrants must be put out of the
way, it should be looked npon as a
blessing, inasmuch as the more oppres-
sors dead, and the fewer alive. the freer
will be the world.
Then Anarchists hail with rejoicing
the era of dynamite because the voice of
dynamite is the voice of force, the only
voice which tyranny has ever been able
to understand. 1t takes no great rum
mage through musty pages of history to
demonstrate this fact.
The ushering in of the dynamite era
marks, for the first time in the worlds
history, the fact that science has been
able to place in the hands of the labor
ing class any power. And this indeed is
a power that, when rightly directed, will
set at defiance whole armies and over
turn thrones,
The poor creature who is creeping
through the dark recesses of Westmin-
ster with a dynamite bomb in his
pocket, himself victim Of the ''crow-
bar" brigade, or perhaps having in his
minds eye the last haunting looks of a
diving famine-stricken wife or child, and
believing it to be the fault of British rule,
who is going to prevent bis dropping it
And if it explodes, it is a shot fred in
the center OF civilization, whose echoes
are heard around the world, and the
idea of dynamite as a=weapon of defense
against tyranny is put forward half q
century. Thus the terror" becomes q
great educator and agitator. Wh o but
.oppressors need tremble at its advent
And again, if some miserable wage
slave is freezing IN sight of warehouses
crammed with clothing which moths
are destroying, and himself possesses mo-
sufficient to protect his body from the
storms of winter, or is dying of hunger
under the shadow of an elevator, burst
ing with food which is moulding fol
want of consumption, vel cannot obtain
enough to appesse the ps.ngs of hunger,
gnawing at his vitals still when he ap'
plies for employment he is told he is not
wanted, because there is an "over-pro
ductlon," hence he must freeze and
starve. Now, if the "traulp" should seize
some of the dear stuff (dfnamitel and GO
and level to the earth the first elevator
and warehouse he came to, who Is to