The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-14
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d uucluded non lir,t pm.

nksddlne blood ,,ers Inch ) beauafdl'
pseetios dbst Il inust be supported byII
he best possible logic. The writer sign-
Ing "Hn reveals tricky qualities; sewing
machines, railroads and telegraphs ara
not systemsn I said they were. neces-
sary psrts Of the SYSTEM. did not at
tempt to prove thst wheel was wagon
It cost this country nullions of money
and human Eves to libeIate four millions
Of blacks.n therefore any other object
must be gained by sacrifice Of lives and
money. Such arguments are rather amaz-
ing when we reflect that every slave could
have been, and reilly wis, freed by few
strokes of a pen, and that the war was
not begun nor prosecuted with the object
Of freeing the slaves. l have never held
that tyrants do not deserve punishment;
nor that victims should be blamed for
turning and rending tt cir obpressors. 2
What / hold is that such acts are not,
and can never become, raeans of reform;
that the proper course is to lay before
the people the det,,ils ofRhe change" we
demand. then defi,nd it with force, if II
be unavoidable, Of advisable, or if we
have sufficient force. i like the analogy
of the jail as given by ,H. Does any
one suppose that the old Jail would be
torn down before the plan for new one
was perfected and the material on the
ground? But the tlynamiters would tear
down the old structure Of society. not
only without a pan fo1 new one bpt
without convincing the inmates that q
new one is needed. Pull the house down
about their ears, then coolly tell them to
build better one, but what kind or how
you neither know or care.
('s You ask what will replace the old
We do not know and We do not care"
Speach by one of the leaders at No. =
West Indiana ST., Chicago about two
months since.)
Most people seeing no better system
wish to preserve the old In trying to
destroy it in opposition to that wish you
needlessly incur hatred. You can lead
people but you cannot drive them.
You would blow up a few cruel capi-
talIsts for examples, to cause agitation.
to draw attention and to educate people.
For every convert gained by such means
you will find several dead set against
you on account of what they call cruel
ties. Besides, in the words of our text,
should "victims of circumstances" be
] punished for being what shey are?
Force begess force" Then why use
dynamite2 It will beget still more
cruelty. The wrong of the present sys-
tenn is not that forc,s is ussd to uphold it
The fault is that wrong principles are
held by the people to be right. You
cannot drive those principles out of, nor
other principles i,ato their minds, by
force. EVE for an eve, etc. is not the
law. Nature is forgiying. A man may
sin physically within the limits ofrecov-
cry and if he wishesto recover he need
only stop SHINING. No force but moral
force Is required. Ifhe has sinned be-
yond the limit he must lie. So must
tie s#oala II II IL ss.is-pa Areee @sfy Carry
out the dynamite doctrine to its logical
end and the world will be made bare
like "Cato'sp meadow after fire. Only
germs would be lett to begin the same
programme again. a
Or, perhaps only those who uphold the
present system are to depart on the
wings of dynamite. It will not be right
to send up-a few capitalists just because
they are as diabolics.l as the system will
allow. Any one; no matter how
tender hearted, who supports the
system, is as guilty as the owner
of Hell's Mills. But the rank and
file are victims; they must be spared.
The oppressors are good agitators. They
show what system we have. Don't
blow them up, because one jay Gould as
an educator is worth ten Anarchists.
Don't blow up buildings, they will be
useful. What shall you operate upon?
Blow up the systeml That's it, but first
make experiments See how much dy-
Mantle is required to disintegrate hy-
pothesis. Hurl a half pound bomb at
the atomic theory ard carefully note the
effect. Blow up the system, but find it
first, and see if it is susceptible to the
force you would apply. -. ~.
Text l. If liberty was "rnade possible
by the revolution of 1898" why did blood
flow in 1871, and why is Louise Michel in
prison, and why is the same accursed
system that you would destroy domi-
nant in France to-day?
Text 2. The earth contains everything
necessary to happiness the sufft ring
required to gain it must be equal to the
happiness. -iEa *.
s l have agreed not 70 be personal or !
would say that texts and 4 are from the
same article by Lucy E. Parsons. The
only way we can reconcile them is to
conclude that the desires of right.
minded people are liable to be blind and
stupid or that those desires are blind
and stupid only when they arise in the
minds of State Socialists. 4E
Text 6. Here is the excuse for the
London explosion. HCatop (there, ! am
personal again) must have been 1rsed