The Labor enquirer., 1886-06-05


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The world is ruled by sentiment s.
long as people preach respect for law
simply because it Is law, 50 long viii
corrupt men remain in high places, anC
SO long will the masses of the people
suffer injustice but when the eyes o.
the people are open to the crimes that
are dailv enacted under cover Of law
sentiment will change and with that
change will come that overturning that
will do away with all laws through and
by which the many were exploited by
! the few.
The plea made by some of the press
in the case of the shooting of the police
of Chicago, is, that the officers were but
dong their duty, and that they are not
responsible if their duty is contrary to
the public welfare. This kind of talk is
very thin when brought to the atten-
ton of a cool reasoner.
A man who shoots into a mob of un-
armed men and women because he has
been ordered to do 80 by his boss SIM
ply commits the crime of murder. no
matter what kind of cloak you may
throw about the murderer; a man,
though he be an officer Of the law, is
amenable to the laws of humanity and
he cannot escape just condemnation for
doing alvile act because someone Or
dered him to do it; ). man should be a
human being and not a mere machine
that exists and acts only at the bidding
of some other individual; as an intelli-
gent human being he is responsible ; as
machine, an engine of murder, be is
very dangerous and should be made
harmless-he should be made to un-
dergo the process that makes good. In
dians. The so-calIed mas acre in Chi
cago on Nav was just what might be
eXpeCted-"as man sOws, 80 also shall
he reap" The police on the day before
shot down eleven people for no other
reason except the use of their constitu-
ional right of assemblage and. the
shooting of the police on the following
day ~ the people was but the recoil of
their own petard.
Can it he expected that the laboring
people will forever submit to be shot at
and killed by hired assasslns? The
wonder is that they put up with it as
they have.
lam not in sympathy with the An
archists, but that being the case l GER
tainly am at outs with the 'aw as it is,
for if Anarchy ever ruled in any land it
certainly rules in this. They speak Of
Anarchi is, and they are accused of in
citing the people to riot and bloOdshed.
Who are these Anarchists? | remem-
Der seeing, not long ago, an advertise
ment calling for men with arms, and grit
to use them, and but few days later |
read of massacre in East ST. Louis
where men and women were shot down
by those "men with arms, and the grit
to use them"
The call that brought the murderers
into the field was MT made by an An
archlst but py an individual who is very
much in favor of Law and Order"
Anarchy! Is there aught but Anarchy
in America to-day? Look to Seattle;
look to California; look TO Colorado, to
Missouri, to Wisconsin, to Illinois, to
New York look anywhere in this, "the
best government the world ever saw
and everywhere you will find the money
power IN arms against the working peO-
pie; shooting them down by the score
everywhere Ycu hear the cry of the
toler for a share of what his labor pro
duCes, and the order is waited back to
them IN answer to their crv "Give
them diet Of lead"
The Chicago authorities ought to run
out the gatling guns and shoot down the
strIkers."- William Barth, president
City National bank.
Is William Barth an Anarchists? The
language is certainly the utterance of an
Anarchist.
The fact of the matter is, our govern
ment is in the hands of number of un-
scrupulous men who have determined
to use all the power Of the nation to en-
slave the working people, and i the peo.
pie should refuse to be made slaves then
they will shoot them into submission,
bv hiring armed assasslns to murder
them; rewarding the murderers with
the peoples belongings. This is what
the Free Press of America is pleased to
call Law and Order"
Men and women of America, in the
name of Humanity l call upon you to
Awake Arise! The steaIthY tread of
the hired butcher is near your dwelling !;
he enters !; see, in his hands the already
bloody steel he raises his hand to
strike; hark something deters him,
his guilty conscience makes him trem-
BILE; no, he takes new heart; he strikes
he ls!-No? what was it? who stayed
his hand? what struck him down? was
it miracle? did God interfere? No.
itwas only dynamite bomb Thank
God for that bo NIB
Oh that a million of honest toilers
we're armed with such bombs, to deal
the death blow. to Anarchy in our fair
land and to establish peace a d coed,