The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-07-09
Capitalist Infernalism -.
At Independence Depot:
Continued from paoe 1.

announced, according to the press dis
patches, that forty or fifty of them
would swing for the crime. He has I'M
masked his animus and revealed his
spirit. He has given his case away.
In the exultation of the moment he
has laid bare the plot to fasten the
guilt of crime upon union men before
they have been tried.
Just at this moment he has the pow
err Of a petty despot, but he would bet
ter beware. If he and his law defying
crime-incfting pals bring innocent
men to the gallows they may live to
feel the moose around their own necks
and they certainly will live to see
the blood Of these victims of capitalist
robbery and military anarchy washed
away in a torrent of retributive JUS
| tice.
O. workingmen Of Colorado, this is
the supreme hour of your lives. You
| have been tried by fire and sword; by
dungeon and by devils You have not
! lowered your colors and I appeal to
| you not to lower them now They
have done their worst and you have
stood it all, and you can and will stand
| the rest.
| Stand solid as granite wall in this
| fight and you will render the cause of
| labor service that generations yet
! unborn will thank and honor you for
| Don't surrender! Die rather!
| They can no more crush out the
! spirit of unionism than they can ex-
| pei the mountains or snuff out the
sun.
You are fighting for humanity and
every day of the struggle hastens the
day of liberation.
If they deport you, return again and
again and again.
You represent an eternal principle
that they will battle against in vain.
Their petty temporary victories will
but hasten the day Of their own
crushing and everlasting defeat.
1t is the class struggle you are en-
gagged in. You are workers, they are
the capitalists; you are the producers
they are the parasites; you are the vic
Tins, they are the robbers
You are in the majority, over
whelmingly. Unite! Close up the
ranks!
Every true man is with you. Swear
that by the eternal you will hold your
ground to the bitter, end.
This year you have your supreme
opportunity. The national election
gives you your chance.
Strike, l appeal to you, a blow or
election day that will shake the cap.
italists of Colorado and the nation ou
of their boots.
! Would you strike terror to the crav.
en- souls of the class who are murder.
ingand starving you? Would you re.
store law and order and go back into
the mines as union menu. Would you
/ strike a. blow in 1.-the interest Of thu
working class that will be felt through
! out the:zle "a : bread I'll
: Hand Wd1utld you eabody cove
l I in abject fear and Sherman Bell tur1
pale as the victims of his militar.
= hyenaism? Would you revive hope il
2 the breasts of despairing toilers, chez
their Responding wives and comfor
2 their terror stricken children? Woul
you strike at the black heart o
1 tyranny, rebuke it's murderous minion
! repudiate its cringing apologists an
: have the handwriting blaze upon tn
/ wall where every capitalist and ever
Y coward may read their inevitabl
doom? Would you assert your ow;
manhood, hold your head erect an
$ feel the throb Of coming freedom?
Y If you would see these things an
e | more to follow along the same line
t you have but one thing to do.
s In November next march to the poll
v from end to end Of the state in on
= solid phalanx and de post a roun
hundred thousand votes for revolu
t tionary socialism.
j One hundred thousand votes a
t least for the Socialist party and EN-
t ancipation. This will strike terror
r Peabody and raise hell in Wall stree
= Do it and you will have answere
r the challenge of the mine owners o
g their own ground,
: Do it and you will vitalize and in
s spire the labor movement of Americ
: and the world.
Do it and you are triumphant an
e the enemy will disappear before 20,
e march like chaff before the cyclone.
: Cd less than this and you are de
= feated, broken, Inundated, in the di]
= with the Squared heel of milita1
re strap on your neck.
If after you have seen and felt an
st suffered under &C apitalist admins
e tration; a Democratic Governor
= Idaho, Republican governor in Colo
is ado; injunctions, soldiers, bull-pen
e, deportations and numberless Grim,
r committed everywhere under Republ
n can rule and Democratic rule, the tw
rule of ca pitalist tyranny; if after a
is this you go to the polls and vote tt
ID Republican ticket or the Democrat
If ticket you ought to be damned ar
. you will be as surely as servile sui
= mission to slavery has always bee
IS damned throughout all the ,ncenturi
rs of the past.
ID But YOU will not be guilty of SUE
foul treason to principle, such :, GOV
l. ardly BETRAYAL 81 your class You vi
'e be men and you: will do your du'
lie while the world looks on and avail
Re your revolutionary verdict. -.
r11.r- 1919