The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-09-08
The Car has dispersed the Douma.

throne for his life and power like an
aspen leaf. has with one stroke of the
pen, with convulsive movement of
MS hand, destroyed all semblance of
law IN Russia, and called into life
new series Of murders, robberies and
outrages.
The Russian government will now
inaugurate a policy of brutal and bes.
tial reprisals.
The hangman and thieves surround
Ing the throne and supporting it with
bloodstained hands have Of late heard
many bitter and insulting truths from
the lips of courageous and honest men.
They will avenge themselves for it.,
and their vengeance will be severe.
Embittered, accustomed to shed
blood, and encouraged by the reign of
lawlessness they will once more ap-
pail the world by their deeds.
They will commence to annihilate
and destroy the leaders Of the people,
and having destroyed the leaders they
will againNdeclare war on the people,
the unarmed and defenseless people
who are dreaming of peace and civil
1zation, and who had been so impa-
tice.
The black, blood-soaked wings of
death will flutter over the country for
months. The exhausted earth will
swallow thousands of cOrpses of men
whose only crime was the desire to
live a human life.
Many women and children will per-
ish from bullets, swords and clubs.
Many crying outrages will be perpe'
trated.
The world will be seized with hor.
! ror and Indignation.
Here and there public meetings will
be- held at which the speakers will elo-
! qrently denounce the Car and his
band of savages.
The speakers will be rewarded by
applause and the public will leave the
meetings in the proud conviction that
they have responded to the call of the
unfortunate people of a foreign land
and thus discharged their duty to hui
manity.
At the same time the blood of the
Russians will flow in wide streams.
Are we civilized people or are we
not?
1 think we are not We only pretend
to love life and mankind, to respect
the law and to abhor criminals.
If my neighbors assault and torture
human beings in their house, and 1
hear the groans of the victims, and
though I pity them, I do not run to
| their adam l civilized person?
II | live in a town where countless
murders, robberies and outrages occur
| fo, ~
| those occurrences but do nothing to
prevent the robberies and to stamp
out the crimes-am | acivilized per-
son?
| If on the earth on which / live and
| rear my children such deeds of horror
| and lawlessness are enacted, as in
| Russia and Turkey, and I, while con-
demning these acts, console myself
with the thought that in my country
| life is easier, safer and better, and
thus consoled live satisfied in my hole
1am truly civilized person?
People whose hearts are devoid of
the consciousness of the brotherhood
| Of nations are not civilized, they are
still savages.
People who live quietly when every
thing around them is soaked in blood,
strangled in violence-are not civil
lied, they are simply satiated animals.
People who have children and allow
them to grow up amidst wild anarchy
and lawlessness and to poison their
hearts with the sight Of all the corrup.
tion which deforms the world. No,
such people are not civilized.
The world is for all, and everybody
has right to it's joys.
Whoever realizes that will not suf-
fer himself to remain passive wit
| ness to the torture of his fellow-men.
Men are brothers. Whoever feels
that will not remain an Indifferent
| spectator at the murder of his broth
er; be the latter Anglo-Saxon, Jew or
| Russian.
! More love and consideration for
mankind!
That is what makes a person truly
civilized!
| The endeavor to increase in life the
number of conscious, wise and honest
people, people believing in the good
of their kind, this is the most import
ant feature of true civilization.
All truly civilized persons must help
the suffering, martyred people of Rus.
sia.
This Is their duty, this should be
their pleasure.
For to help human being to live a
human life, in this help men must find
for themselves the consciousness of
their own significance in the world.
the proud justification of their own
lives.
The life of the animal Is senseless.
the life of the beast is abhorrent-and
ignoble and disgusting Is the life of
the beaver, and other animals who live
in the warm darkness of their under.
ground holes.
Men should take life in a wider and
deeper sense.
The world is my house, and nothing
that happens in 1t should pass by me
without touching my heart. And If
such crying horrors occur as those
which we now witness In Russia. true
men and women cannot remain quiet
at their sight.
To help the fpeople of Russia to con-
quer their freedom is humane and is
noble.