The Labor enquirer., 1885-02-28
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DIE Who so Signs Himself says
Nitro Glycerine IS an
Educator.
No Time To Read Moral Essays to
Our Assailants, While They
Clutch Our Throats.
The Ballot Doee Not 1xpgess the
Popular VII and 1ducatinn
Is Handicapped.
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Mof The EnQuirer. Ii; I'LL:
F The late explosions in London and
elsewhere have demonstrated the fhct
that tyrants, with the minions Of the Law
at their neels, are unable to protect them
selves against what "Zeno' terms
minority -"the dynamiters.p One dyns-
mater could cart enough explosives on q
wheelbarrow to blow up London. Nor
is it SO certain that the dynamiter is In
the minority, except, perhaps, in his
methods of accomplishing common
end. It's all very nice to talk of educat-
ing the majority up to the point of voting
present evils out ofsexistence. With the
robbers hands upon our throats, we
have not much time to read moral essays
to our assailants, orto practice the other
check policy for the sake of avoiding
bloodshed.
On the same, principle the colonists
would have remained the subjects of
George II. Ireland has groaned for
centuries under the British heel of
tyranny and spoliation. The chattel
slave of the south would still remain in
bondage. He who imagines it possible
to educate the robber to peaceably give
up his stolen plunder, has reasoned to
little purpose. Imagine Vanderbilt, Jay
Gould and host of other millionaires
becoming converts to system that made
it impossible for them to rob labor of its
legitimate fruits Had Thomas Paine
and other Revolutionary patriots under
stood the science that underlies Anarch-
lstic Socialism, the necessity of bloodshed
in this country would perhaps never
have occurred again. But "Zeno" must
remember that this science had not then
been discovered and he must further
remember that to such martyrs as Gal
lilo, Servitors, Thomas Paine, Delles-
cluse, and thousands of others like them,
We are indebted for our present knowl-
edge. "Cato's" eve for an eve and tooth
for tooth is the natural law of defense.
And if the thousands who are perishing
for the means of subsistence and the en-
joyments of life, which are theirs mot
| for the asking, as per ''Zeno's" plan. but
by the taking, as per Revolutionary or
dynamite plan-do not make use Of any
agent that is placed in their hands by
the first natural law, them is education
delusion and snare.
! / am tired of this twaddle about TAX
ing life. When life stands in the way
Of any natural law it must 60, whether
/ it be sacrificed on freedoms altar by
martyrs who love Justice more than life,
or by the relentless hand of human prog
ress, that sweeps all objects away which
obstructs its path. Does it ever occur to
the sentimentallsts who are so Mortified
at the probable taking Of the life of
tyrant who obstructs and stands in the
way of moral advancement, that these
same tyrants send thousands to untimely
graves every year; besides other thous-
ands who are made to suffer the tertures
of the damned through their fendish,
inhuman greed a
/ Let the conservative, well fed reformer
moralize about educating and humaniz-
ing set of cutthroats and thieves to
hand over their stolen plunder to the
slaves whom they control at the ballot,
box by means of the bread which they
have seized but, as one of the beggars
at the feet of capital, prefer an argu-
ment of force, since it is the only one at
| all likely to win. If the Mahdi were to
stop to moralize and educate his British
foes to let him and his people and his
country alone instead of waging war of
determination against them what would
i be thought Of his tactics7 If mems
votes ere controlled by their masters,
who guard the bread supply, do they
not exercise still greater influence
over them in matters of education and
propaganda? In proof of this I need
proceed no further than the writer Of
this. Literally PROSTATE at the feet Of
capital, begging to be allowed to work
for some of the bread which the few
u have ,monopoIized and boarded up, I
dare not publicly proclaim my Socialistic
views, lest my family be compelled to
appeal for public charity, and yet be-
flieve that if I had bread enough to stand
j a siege, could persuade many to em-
brace Socialism.
H In all revolutions those who precipi-
. tate and inaugurate the fight are called
, assassins, murderers and cranks, and the
conservative holds up his hands in hor-
i ror and deprecates bloodshed' and coun-
f sells moderation and moral suasion-but
never fails to put in an appearance after
} the smoke of battle has cleared away to
claim his share of the spoils of victory.
4 Dynamiters are not the bloodthirsty,
/, reyengeful creatures "Zeno" would have
people believe. They simply recognize
the fact that to pit moral suasion against
brute force would be worse than waste
of time, and that the only way to destroy
!, existing evils is to meet force with force.
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