The Labor enquirer., 1885-02-07

y0uuK Rlri WITH Iao lIdMk loOA, tuo AAeu'
step, and the quick mind. Alter strug-
Cling for years with misery in her native
village, she left it for the great city. She
knew that the struggle for existence
thsre wqI9d be hard; but she hoped 70
gain her bread honestly Courted BY q
youns bourgeois. she was captivated BY
hia fne w6rds, and gave herself to him
~ the passion Of f'Fonth. end At the
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courageous. she did not cease to struggle
but before long succumbed in the con-
fiict, with cold and hunger, and finished
by dying in some hospital.
Having learned all this. what will you
do? Will you efface the painful impress
sion it makes with stupid words about
its not being the first nor the last, and
even, perhaps, be heard in some drink
ing shop, in company with other brutes,
insulting her memory With vile theories?
Either this. or the story will move YOUR
heart; you will try to encounter the cow
ardly seducer, to fling his crime in his
face; you will think over the causes of
cases like these, which are taking place
every day, and you will understand that
they will not cease while society is di-
vided into two camps the miserable in
one, and in the other idlers, pleasure
seekers of fine words and brutal appe-
tites. You will understand that it is
high time to fill up this gulf of separa-
ton. and you will run to enroll yourself
with the Socialists.
And you, Woman of the People? !? Does
this history leave YOU cold AS you
caress the silky head of the little daugh-
ter at your side, ,doyou never think what
will be her lot ifthe present social state
is not changed 7? Do you never think of
the future in store for your young sister
or your sons? Do you want your sons
to vegetate as your father has vegetated,
With nothing to think of but how to get
the bit of bread with no pleasures but
those of the bar-room Do you want
your husband, your boy, to he always at
the mercy of the first conner who has
capital with which to hire "hands ~ Do
Won want that they should always be
slaves of employers, food for the cannon
of the powerful. manure for the fields of
the rich?
No, thousand times Nol I know
well that your blood boils when you
hear that your husband, having boldly
gone on strike, finishes by accepting, hat
in hand, the terms haughtily dictated to
the strikers by their employers. 1 know
that you admire the Spanish women who
barred their bosoms to. the bayonets of
the soldiers in an uprising of the people.
/ know that you honor the Russian girl
who tried to lodge ball In the brain Of
the satrap who outraged a Socialist in
prison. I know that your hearts beat
when you read how the women Of the
people Of Paris stood under storm of
balls encouraging their men" to hero
ism.
Itsis because / know all this that |
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know you also will finish by coming to-
join those who are working for the Con-
quest of the Future.
: You all. sincere young people-men
and women, peasants, iaborers, employees
and soldiers understand your rights
and come with us! Come with your
brothers to work for the Revolution
which will abolish all slavery, break all
chains, destroy old traditions, and open
up new horizons, which will establish in
human society the true Equality, the
true Liberty work for all, and for all
the full fruits of their labors, for all the
full enjoyment Of all, their faculties, for
all life, rational, humanitary and happy.
Tell us not that we are too feeble to
attain this splendid end I!
Reckon, and see how great a number
We are, who suffer injustice. Peasants,
who work for others, and who EAT oats
to leave the wheat for their masters.
We are millions Of men; we are SO nu-
merous, that we form the entire mass of
the people. Operatives, who make silk
and velvet to clothe ourselves in rags,
we are also -multitndes, and when the
whistles of the mills let us free for awhile
we 1nundate fhe streets and the squares
like a tumnftlous aea. Sordiefs, whom
they-f lead with a drnm-stick, we who re.
ceive the balls to let our officers get the
ribbons and crosses, we poor fools who
have only Just learned not to shoot our
brothers, we have only to right-about.
face as men to see our gold-braided com.
manders turn pale! Weall who are
suffering, who are outraged-we are au
immense multitude, we are an ocean
able to engulf everything. AS soon a,
we have the Will. we will establish JUS
tice on the earth. PIERRE KRAPoTKINE.
England.
[By Associated Labor Press.l
| LONDON, Jan. 20. The prospects of ar
increase in employment during the pres
ent year are somewhat more hopeful
but the number out Of work Throughout
the country is still very large, and th'
distress in Inanv towns continue severe
In the shipbuilding industries in th
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