Hartford labor., 1894-10-20
presumed Congress will in due time make the necessary appropriations

presumed Congress will in due time make the necessary appropriations.'
 |
 This is plain talk. The language of Gen eral Schof1eld cannot be misunderstood by
 any intelligent working man or woman The Alpha and Omega of General Scho- | fields report is simply this:
 "The great Pullman strike has taught
 a lesson to the Capitalist class of Amer ! ica. We must have a standing army. We ! must have more Gatling guns and Win ! chesters to cure the striking mobs. We { must have more military posts at all the principal industrial centres of the country We must prepare for a bloody war against the - = - American people" This means civil war. Yes, and this civil war is going right now before our
 eyes. It began in all it's seriousness with
 the bloody battle in Homestead on the
 Monongahela River, and it has continued ever since. The battles in Tennessee, Buff falo, Tonawanda, Occur d'Alene Cripple Creek, the numerous bloody encounters during the great coal miners strike, the siege of Chicago and other cities of the West during the Pullman strike-aH these struggles will be recorded by the histori- ans as the beginning of the social revolu- tion.
 We feel confident that the Capitalist plutocracy of this country in whose abso- lute possession our entire machinery of law rests to-day, will make strenuous ef- forts to develop the American militarism in a most effective manner and to bring about military rule as stringent as that of the Czar of Russia.
 What difference will there be between despotic Russia and Republican America when single corporation-shyster like Grover Cleveland has the right to call out the increased army of Federal troops at a moments notice from Wall street or Lombard street, or at a special request of the personif1ed moneybag George Pullman or of the Shylock Carnegie? Actually there will not be particle of difference.
 The American working people are still dom brought about by the swindling tariff legislation.
 During the last five years we have wit messed a concentration of the military forces into our great industrial centres Why, go to New York, Chicago and other cities and there you will find your Capi- talist armories, as numerously, and as we'll equipped as in any monarchy of the old world. During the Pullman strike it was shown that the State militia in Mis- souri could not be handled in the same way the Capitalists liked it; the Federal troops stationed at Jefferson Barracks, a few miles south of St. Louis, were only few in number. What was the result?
 Why, by order of the War Department the Jefferson Barracks were immediately made a permanent military post; the considerably increased and the city of St. Louis will enjoy all the "benefits'' of miIi- | tary protection in case of Labor strikes | or disturbances.
 The Pullman strike was killed by the l Federal troops-by Grover Cleveland and l his Democratic and Republican allies l Cleveland showed what can be done by | presidential dictator at the head of a strong military system.
 Ieneral Scnon2id IS not, a hypOcr1te; he ,ells the American people openly what the Democrats and Republicans, these tools of Capitalist corporations, will do, what must be done to "cure the striking mobs."
 American workmen! Will you heed the Will you comprehend the dan serous position you have been placed in " both of your old parties?
 l he party that will make a determined nd successful fight against General Scho- eId and his Capitalist clique. Work and ote for the Socialist Labor Party Here les your only hope. Socialism will be the n1y remedy for the social diseases of Capitalism and militarism.