Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-04-29

I
Ulerkenwell prison. the righteous pun
lshment which befell those servants Of
tyrants and enemies Of freedom, Burke
and Cavendish-but for these and other
glorious deeds the bitter cry of the op-
pressed all over the world had passed
unheard and unheeded, Ireland had not
wrung from reluctant England tho
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 rs
this sort Of thing continues nothing can
be hoped for but the throwing away Of
precious lives aud so-ely needed money
to no purpose.
"But let these scattered forces COM
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, fo: 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 vam-
pire brood of peers, mobiles and capital
ists 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 CT
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 consummation
can be attained all at once the fedora
tion is not Sd sanguine as to expect. Its
members know that though they have
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 fetters
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.
"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 bo England. that prince
ridden, priest ridden, peer ridden nation
of flunkies 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 in 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 be
struck.
"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. It is very
necessary that the federation should
have some such headquarters, and in re-
gard to size-too large center is not de-
sirable-shape, situation and compact
ness, Ireland possesses peculiar natural
advantages 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.
"Is there single thinking man or
woman who cannot see that monarchy
and imperialism. peers, clergy and class
distinctions, 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
as 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 oc-
Cured in France but what happened
then, though it served to show what
hatred of its rulers was seething unsus-
peoted in the lowest stratum of society,
was o mere accident. But, if an acci-
dental outbreak like the French revolu.
tion could set rivers Of blood running
in France, what may we not expect
from the great revolution which, when
it comes, as come it must, will be the
result not of chance, but of long years
of systematic propagation of socialistio
principles among the masses?
'There are people who will say that
what happened on the other side of the
channel can never happen on this. But
those who know what is going on in
London, Manchester, Birmingham and
all the largest towns know that we are
living on the edge of volcano; that
England is ripper for revolution today
than France was in 1889, though the
danger is as little suspected now as it
was then, and that what happened then.
| ond xvoren NAV haOppn at any time in