The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-24
IDEAS DO NOT DIE.

hanged without doubt, as the lesson 1t
will teach all these Anarchists and So
cialists is needed now, when these dis
turbers are allowed to preach their
damnable doctrine to the peaceabIe and
contented men who are satisfied to rec
ognize the fact that theC occupy their
proper place in this world, where we all
cannot Re wealthy"
The above verbatim declaration OF
Denver banker contains sentiments
which we all, as men who earn our
bread by hard toll, may ponder over
with profit to ourselves and the cause
which has in it 30 much of consequence
to us and those whose destiny it is to
come after US.
The words of this banker are of inter
est merely to show the way his class re-
gard the outcome of the Anarchists
trial. Neither he or his class know or
care as TO the guilt of those men their
only and great concern is that the An
archists be hanged, Ito teach lesson to
Anarchists and Socialists"
The banker, as we'll as all other men
who get something for nothing, realizes
the fact that his occupation will be gone
when the principles taught by Socialists
are examined by cool, common sense
men and women who now suffer under
the burden imposed upon them by those
who absorb all wealth and produce
none.
The fact that a few Of their watchdogs
were killed in Chicago does not press
sorely on the bankers; that few po-
licemen were sacrificed bv capitalists in
order that freedom of speech and public
meeting might be denied dlscontented
workingmen, is not the cause of the
howl for the blood of the Anarchists.
The howl for blood goes up because
the banker and his kind want the aid of
the gibbet to frighten Discomfort back
into the hovel and slum.
The actual physical terror engendered
by the bomb of the Anarchist is not the
producer of the savage yell for gore that
rings from end to end of the cspitalistic
lines.
No, this howl for the hangman comes
from keen-slghted, cunning Slylocks
who recognize the fact th at behind tb>-
bsknb, and apart from 1t, is an ideo
waich they hope to crush and choI
out of existence with the hangma3,.
no.sed and knotted hemp.
How vain the thought! How foolish
the idea
Go, Shylock, and search the records of
mans strife and sacrifice for Liberty,
and find now useless are your ropes and
gibbets and judges
Your ropes and gibbets and judges
strangIed Robert Emmett but not the
idea for which he died. Your ropes and
judges and gibOets did to death heroic
John Brown of uarper's Ferry, but the
idea in his mind you could not gbbet,
and 1t went from the heart of the old
hero on the gibNet and found resting
place in the bosoms of few, who dared
refuse 20 join in the cry of the rabble,
which howled for the blood of the I'm
cendiary, reasonable, property destroy
ing John Brown"
The idea went on its mission and
paused not till it destroyed the business
of those bankers and brokers in human
flesh who, like our bankers of to-day,
wanted Brown hanged "As a lesson to
property -destroyers"
No, ShyloCk brood of bankers, brokers
and bloodsuckers You cannot kill the
idea of truth though you, with your
judges and ropes and gibhets, hang every
man in your clutches in Chicago.
They may die but the principle for
which they are sacrificed lives after
them and will win in the end.