The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-16

but for the justice which was exc
cuted upon the archtyrant Alexander o.
Russia, the blow which was struck a
English tyranny by the destruction o.
Clerkenwell prison, the righteous pun
ishment which befell those servants Of
tyrants and enemies of freedom, Burk,
aud Cavendish-but for these and othel
glorious deeds the bitter cry of the op
pressed all over the world had passed
unheard aud unheeded, Ireland had not
wrung from reluctant England the
few paltry concessions that have been
made, and the dawning Of the great
day of freedom had been indefinitely
postponed.
''But the fact remains and cannot be
denied that nihilists. anarchists Fe.
mans and those who under different
names and different leaders are fight.
ing for freedom throughout the world
have up to the present failed to accom-
plish the results at which they aim.
"And why?
because they have been scattered
and separate organizations, each working
independently Of the other and having
no resources outside itself. So long as
this sort of thing continues nothing can
be hoped for but the throwing away of
precious lives and sorely needed money
to no purpose.
"But let these scattered forces ccm-
bine into one organized and all power
full federation, and mankind will be at
its mercy.
''This is what has been done.
''The World Federation of Freedom is
now an accomplished fact, for all the
secret societies of the world have COM
bined into one common and supreme or
ganization, with one common enemy
and one common purpose.
"That purpose is to rid mankind of
the monsters of monarchy and imperial
ism, and with them of the whole YAM
pire brood of peers, mobiles and capital
lists, who, in order that they may live in
idleness and sensuality, grind the face
of the poor and drain drop by drop the
hearts blood of toiling millions.
''Its object is to declare that all
things are the property of the people;
to wrench from the greedy NAV of
landowners and capitalists their i'll got
ten gains and to restore them to the
rightful possessors; to sweep from the
face of the earth the fat priests, minis
ters and clergy who batten and fatten
on the carrion of dead and decaying re-
ligions; to preach the gospel of the
happiness OF man in place of the worship
of God, and to declare the day of the
great republic, when the many millions
who have hitherto been ruled shall be-
come the rulers.
THAT this glorious contamination
can be attained all at once the fedora
ton is not so sanguine as to expect. Its
members know that though they have a
lever strong enough to move the world
they must be content to work slowly.
Mankind is chained giant. Their aim
is to set him free. But to do this they
must be content to knock off his letters
one by one, and at the last meeting of
the World Federation of Freedom it was
unanimously agreed to inaugurate the
great struggle for personal liberty.
"The council of the federation has
two reasons for deciding to commence
the plan of campaign by freeing Ireland.
1.-The first is that the members know
well that the greatest enemy with which
they have to contend-the last country
to be convinced of the righteousness of
their cause-will be England. that prince
ridden, priest ridden, peer ridden nation
of fiunkies and enemies of freedom,
which shed the blood of her own chill
dren in America rather than grant them
their rightful independence and now
seeks i'll similar way to keep Ireland,
India, Canada and Australia under her
cruel heel. AT England, then, it is right
and fitting the first blow should BIZ
struck.
1.-The other reason is that Ireland
when she is once set free and in tho
hands of the federation, is to be made
the basis of future operations. 1t is very
necessary that the federation should
have some such headquarters, and in re-
gard to size-too large center is not de-
situation and compact
ness, Ireland possesses peculiar natural
for the purpose. An island,
surrounded on all sides as by sentries
by the sea, no hostile force can steal
upon her under cover and unawares.
She is practically the key to Europe,
and as vantage ground from which to
commence operations upon England her
position cannot be bettered.
lis there single thinking man or
woman who cannot see that monarchy
and imperialism, peers, clergy and class
are doomed, and that their
utter downfall is only matter of time?
Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy,
France and England are undermined to
the very cores by socialism and anarchy.
The mines which are to destroy society
rs society now exists are laid, though
they are out Of sight, and at any mo-
ment the opportunity may come to fire
the train. Such an opportunity once &C.
Cured in France, but what happened
then, though it served to show what
hatred of its rulers was seething unsus-
pected in the lowest stratum of society,
was mere accident. But, if an acct