The Labor enquirer., 1885-03-07
AswELL THE RANKS.
- - Geed Wsrh Gs On Duriag tAe
Next Year, and Socialists Wm be
Discernibis in the Process,on
For The Enquirer.

DAseexnibie in the Procession.
For The Enquirer.
Truth win out despite the attempts
OF the capitalistIc press to suppress facts.
SO there we're large number of So
ciallsts in line on the day of parade after
all. am glad'to hear it. On reading
the taffy report of the Tribune-Republi-
can had como to the conclusion, that
had been in Denver on the twenty
second / would have created a sensation
by marching under the red flag alone
but I find from The ENQUIRER that quite
a number Of the vanguard of reform
were in line. Yes, and on the next an
niversary Of Washington's birth therell
be SO many Socialists in line that news
paper dude would be unable to suppress
the fact of their presence. The world
moves,regardless of newspaper monkeys.
Before the parade the so.called law
and order element and Sabbath stick
lers were greatly alarmed for fear the
chained tiger, Labor, would break loose
from the keepers and devour few cod
fish dudes, whose grandfathers were
miners, or carpenters, or ranchers, or
hod carriers land therefore much better
than their brainless ofspring) but when
they found that laboring men were
sober, well-behaved and gentlemanly
Iappearing men-and very numerous
they changed their tactics and under
took to soft soap them. But again they
make mistake by taking it for granted
that because a man works with his
hands he is necessarily fool. The
Trihune-Republican virtually calls you
voting asses or fools, when they inform
you that on election day you will vote
with one or the other of the great politi-
cal (robber) parties.
Now, as laboring man and an Inter
national Socialist, let me admonish you
to give all your spare time between this
and the twenty-seeond of next Febru-
ary to the study of the social question,
and when the next parade takes place
in Denver the dude who reports for the
Tribune Republican will have to care
fully adjust, his eye-glass to find any
thing in the procession but Socialists.
Iset out some five years since to ex-
anime into the tenets of the Greenback
doctrine, which resulted in making me
a Greenbacker; but when 1 had solved
the finance problem I discovered that it
| was but one issue of several which
were pressing themselves upon tus
for solution. The result has been that
I have taken up and studied every
phase of our social and economic sys-
tenn, and have been irresistibly COM
pelled to adopt International Socialism
as nearest absolute truth and justice of
anything I have found, but am just as
much student, yes more SO, than at any
period of my. investigations and I pro-
pose to continue nv search for knowledge
! as long as I live.
Now. how many of my fellow-workers
will join me in extracting the germs Of
truth which lay hidden beneath the
heap of rubbish and error, the result Of
our gross ignorance?
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Examine all sides and then decide
Dive for bottom facts; don't be a coward
and refuse to examine thing because
somebody tells you Socialists, Anarchists
and Dynamiters are cutthroats and assas,
sins. Read THE ENQUIRER and learn
that Socialists are neither fools or deYils,
and if you need more light write to the
editor and he will furnish it to you.
Laboring mems organizations, such as
the Knights of Labor, Trades Assem-
blies, etc, are all very good as far as
they GO. But one of the first lessons that
you have got to unlearn is that you will
never right your wrongs through the
ballot box or legislation. The present
system has been tried for over a hundred
years and it grows worse with each
decade. The wage system must be abol'
ished, and labor must have what it pro-
duces before we have peace and happi-
ness. You must war upon systems not
men. The legislature of Colorado is but
one nest of robbers to be broken up
Don't waste your time on house bill OF
senate bill so-and-so, Law makers only
laugh at you for set of gudgeons. As
long as they can persuade you that you
are taking part in the drama of politics
they feel easy, but when you lay of, the
tin helmet and cease to throw up your
hat for men who look upon you as a
voting automaton (whom they can use
and foist themselves into power and soft
places where they can sell the people
with impunitY), and you begin to think
and act for yourselves they will begin to
respect you and not before.
DYNAMITE.
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