Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-05-13

tnat, thought Dalton as he returned to his
room. ''But whatever talents and strength
he may possess, he will never bring order out
OF an industrial chaos until some outburst of
physical force, a series of sensational TRACE
dles shall have aroused the self-conident
and ease-loving conservatism of the well-to-
do and awakened from their lunacy the
wealth-mad men, who if sane, could lead our
people into New Canaan. 1t shall be nv
work. he went on pacing up and down the
room. "My country demands the sacrifice.
The despairing faces of the hopeless poor
call me to it. The triumph of prosperous
treason shall be stopped The traitorous en-
emies to the common good shall die The Sc
cret foes to progress. to liberty and to iustice
the scoffers at ethics and right; the scoruers
OF the law, the law which protects their mis-
cradle lives and makes safe their corrupt
possessions: the brazen offenders against So
ciety and the social law shall lock arms with
bloody death and walk with HIM to their
long account and meath their coffin lids a.
tone for the evil that they have done. No
man or set of men shall enslave my country
men and smile into my face and take my
hand and ask respect of me- Cold steel shall
meet his colder impudence and awful crimes
His life alone shall atone his treason. For
less ofenses, infinitely less, penitentiary
doors swing open and close upon their vic
tins forever. For less offenses. infinitely
less. the gallOws trap every day is spung and
the last expiration made to broken law. Shall
the arch offenders then escape? Is the arm
of legal Justice too weak to punish them? Is
its sword too short to reach their high toned
crests? 1t may be so; but the peoples brawny
strength shall supplement her falling hand
and the mighty forces of their power strike
past her measured blade. II in this struggle
with lawless veal th the Licor's axe is dropp-
ed, Vigiantes will pick it up and WELD it un-
til a hand is found that shall be strong enough
to hold it. The organization of the Vigil
lantes shall go on. It's plans and system shall
be perfected and when the awful moment
comes, the black-plumed hearse shall wind
its funeral way through the streets of every
city in the land to the music of the death
song that shall then be sung
Then stopping short in his walk, his eyes
fixed and staring as on some CHASTITY object
he slowly continued and vet it is terri
BILE thing to take human life. The knife. the
wound. the bloody victim, the torn and shat
tered limbs are dread sights that make the
heart turn cold and chill the warm currents
of the soul. Death in the open fight, in the
mutual struggle, in the battle-heat of strife
loses its stiller terrors But to kill by stealth.
to take the marked man unawares, to cash,
to stab with coId-blooded hands. to STAY the
defenseless one mid peaceful scenes. that is
awful. The brave must ever shrink from
that. AT that the strong-hearted purpose of
our fixed resolve make pause. commission
from the Almighty conscience alone can JUS
tify such extreme action. The cup may not
pass from me. No other way leads up to light
and the man who blocks that way must die
Millions rot in starving poverty, that few
may riot in overlooking plenty. A million
gasp out stunted dwarfed and smothered
lives and tread a skyless path to sunless death,
that few may live in selfish, shameless,
lawless luxury. | will Stay one that thous-
and may 1.-Two | will tear away the felon
hand from the throat of labor will stay
the felon knife from the heart of my country,
and plunge my own into the heart of the felon
capitalist that essays the crime Let kindred
and f: lends forsake me if they will. Let me
die felon's death Let mankind execrate
my name when am gone if he must, but to
God and my conscience. answer.--'thy SER
want is not guilty."
From advance sheets of the Coming
Strike" or No of the a. T. A. series by
Clinton Bancroft.)
Deforr, the poOr HOuCeS