The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1894-07-27

owned by the rich held unoccupied in
tracts of tens and hundreds Of thousands
of acres; counties and almost states
owned by English and foreign landlords;
cities burdened and overburdened by
be fed daily, and who will fight and riot
and burn property and create consterna-
ton the first day their food is cut off;
distress, ruin and evictions ever present
in every part Of the nation, and the
wealth being rapidly railroaded into the
pockets of a handful of plutocrats, a few
powerful trusts, a corporaEs guard of
colossal corporations; all the working
and middle classes becoming sullen and
nursing incendiary thoughts because of
the rank injustice wrought by the presi
dent, congress and courts; whole nation
slumbering over a vast mine of gunpow
der that match will explode. Yet this
is called peace, sweet, white winged
peace. As we'll might the fierce wintry
storms of the Sierra Nevada mountains
be termed balmy sunshine, southern Cali
fornia weather.
War has begun. Homestead fired the
Run Of this revolution. The rebellion
freed the slaves but set in motion forces
which have enslaved Americans. Greed
piles up useless fortunes, and American
citizens feed their families at the soup.
houses Of charity. Law is little more
than himsy device TO enable the rich to
further fleece the poor. The govern
ment is of the rich, by the rich, for the
rich. County jails, penitentiaries, poor
houses and asylums are crowded to re-
pletion with the poor. Thousands Of
honest, Industrious American workmen
can no longer find work enough to buy
sufficient bread to eat Those who are
employed know that in a little while
their places will be given to European
paupers,
America for Americans! Yes, if you
mean very rich Americans. 1t is for the
Carnegies, Goulds, Rockefellers, Wander
bilts, Astors and Huntinytons. The poor
man must move on, and don't forget that
he is moving. History repeats itself and
establishes precedents. Americans are
not fitted for slavery. The common
schools prevent it. In other nations past
and preseAt, when the few got the money,
the many become docile slaves. In
America, when the few get the money,
the many will fight like tigers, will be
slaughtered by hundreds Of thousands,
but will live or die free men. No Ameri-
can will starve without a struggle, so
long as he firmly believes his starvation
is caused by somebody's robbery. Be
tween slavery and death he prefers death.
Those who are fighting now may not
realize that they are fighting for any
thing but bread. When they wake up
to the fact that the nation is at stake
they will gather about the old flag by
millions and will sweep away plutocracy,
fraud, trusts, corporations, millionaires
and all the satanic hosts that are so
blindly and rapidly destroying the ex=
istence Of our once splendid govern
ment.
He who rides over ruined homes, starry
ing babies and penniless workinymen, in
his mad race for gold, is an enemy to
American freedom, an enemy more to be
feared than foreign nation in open war
fare. Somebody or something is running
this nation, and therefore all loyal men
should be fearless in crushing that
enemy. That somebody, that something,
is the cruel, remorseless, hydra headed
monster Of greed He has nothing to
fear from law, for he makes the law. lie
has nothing to dread from government,
for he has captured the government. He
does not fear the people, for his cry and
boast is, 'damn the people, Hence
loyal men, men who love this nation and
its starry flag, have commenced war.
They are not disloyal to the nation as it
was, as it ought to be, as it shall be, but
they refuse to starve at the behest of
those who seek to wrest the last crust
from starving mouths, in order that the
miserable value of that crust may swell
their already useless fortunes.
ROBERT Z. MILLS.
The Only Solution.
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