Iron County register., 1886-05-13
Down With the Red flag.

DOWn Win the 1Neu rGS.
Though there are more Socialists.
Communists and Anarchists in Chica-
| go i'll proportion to its population than
| in any city in the Union, that fact does
not excuse the Chicago authorities in
| femporizing with them in their law
| lessness and rebellion. Blackguards,
ruffians and criminals driven from ev-
cry other country make their rendez-
vnus in American cities aud take ad-
vantage of every temporary excitement
| to raise in the streets the rel flag wi hich
fittingly typifies their aims. They are
not American citizens for they spurn
American citizenship and taunt those
who value it with cowardice and folly.
Forbearance has its limits, and those
limits are reached when such pronun-
ciamentos are issued as this from Chi
cago:
| Revenge! Workingmen, TO arms! Your
| masters sent out their bloodhounds, the po-
| lice; they killed six of your brothers at Nc
Cormick's this afternoon. They killed the
:, poor wretches because they, like you, bad
| the courage to disobey the the supreme will
| of your bosses. They killed them because
| they dared ask for shorting of the hours OF
toll. They killed them to show you free
American citizens" that yau must be satisfs-
ed and contented with whatever your bosses
condescend to allow you or YOU will get kill
| cd. You have for years endured the most
| ahject thumiliations ;you have for years suffer-
ed unmeasurable inquities; you have worked
yourself to death; you have endt.red the
, pangs of want and huhgers your children
you have sacrificed to tho factory lords; in
short, you have been miserable and obeslient
slaves all these wears. Why? To satisfy the
Unsuitable greed, TO fill the Golfers of your
lazy. tLleving master, When You ask them
now tn lessen your burden he sends his blood.
hounds out to shoot you, kill you. Ii yoo
| are men, II you are the sons Of your xrantl.
sires, who have shed their blood to free yo,,,
| then you will rise in your might, destroy the
hideous monster that seeks to destroy you.
| To arms, we call you, to arms.
The men who issued this procle ma
ton did not hesitate to fire or the cOat-
of-arms of Illinois which every Chicago
policeman crrries on his breast as the
symbol Of the supremacy of the law
and the sovereignty vested in it by the
people who made it. Their act was one
of Open-armed rebellion against the
under the flag of anarchy raised against
the flag OF the United States. When
having repeatedly assaulted the officers
of the law; having dragged one OF them
to a Iamp-pOst to hang him, the police
| abandoned their mistaken policy of
| firing in the air and, in sef-defence,
shot to kill; this call tn arms for ire
| venge" is issued to American citizens,
"in the name of their fathers"
1t Is only few years since Amer sian
citizens, native and foreign born, join
ed at the expense of billions in money
and of inestimable blood, in maintain
ing the supremacy of the flag of the
United States over those who sought
only to abandon the government with
out wishing to destroy it. Mem whose
ancestors starved together at Valley
Forge and fought side by side from
Bunker Hill to Yorktown; whose
friends and brothers were left la the
trenches from the first Bull Run to
AppomattoX, have the red flag Eaunted
in their faces, and are called on to .'re-
| venge" ruffians and criminals by join
ing them in murder and rapine. How
long will these Catalines abuse our pa
tience?
The disparity between what they
seek to accomplish and their powers Of
accomplishing is 1t so great that the
honest indignat ation they excite is gen.
orally repressed lest to expend IL on
contemplate objects should bring IL
into ridicule; but the time has come
when they must he made to understand
that they are detestable as well as con-
temptible. This ought to be apparent
If tor no other reason than that while
they sneer at American citizens who
work for a living as American citizens
should. they have the hardihood at the
same time to proclaim that the cause
of American labor Is their cause, aud
| that they are its champions, at tins,
too, when American labor has won its
greatest victory in the prolonged strng-
gle with the Gould Southwestern sys-
tenn, i'm fighting its greatest pitched
haffln nn6ar fha A pna iTsan
winning the victory over itself which
insures the final victory over every
wrong that opposes 1t. Of all the caus-
| es for congratulations OH all sides in
the strike on the Southwestern system,
the greatest is the selfcOntrol exhibit
| ed and acquired during its continuance
10y the thousands engaged in it-nlen
of every nationality who with the few
exceptions that strengthen rule, ha va
shown themselves worthy of A merican
citizenship. Had they not beei, the
Communists and law-breakers they
| were charged with being, there might
be where East st. Louis stands only q
heap of ashes, as me mOrial of inOf-
fensive citizens who lost their lives be-
cause u governor of Illinois failed to do
his duty.
1t is for the sake of American citizen
ship as represented IN men who, with
the power to make and change the
law, have the moral worth to abide
them, that the red flag of anarchy and
communism must be driven from the
streets of every city in America. 1t
should not he tolerated longer. The
men who raise it aud meet death un-
der it deserve death. Down with i'll
Republican.
Call for judicial Convention.