New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-03-21
FLAMB0YANT EUGENE DEBS.
Labor Leader Advocates Rights by
Force of Arms.
Sets Himself and His Followers
Higher Than Courts.
Declares War if Colorado Miners
Are Executed For Murder.

A recent manifesto of Eugene ".
Debs will be of interest to those of the
people Of this city who had the plea
sure Of listening to his excellent lecture
IN Turner Theatre recently. For more
than year the authorities of Colo
RADIO have been working on an attempt
to get at the facts in regard to the
blowing up Of some of the mines in
that state and the attempted assassi-
nation of Gov. Peabody.
At last they have what is purported
to be a confession from one of the
Federation members, and in its details
it is more atrocious than anything
ever planned by the nihilist and simply
reeks with the blood of intended VIC
TINS 1t would seem that Mr.. Debs
has gone beyond the point of reason
in his defense Of these men, his doc
trine is at least unsafe. Here are a
few of the choice dictums of his TRADE
against the courts:
1t is a foul plot; a damnable con-
spiracy; a hellish outrage.
The governors of Idaho and Colo
RADIO say they have the proof to con-
vict. They are brazen fa]sifers and
venal Williams, the miserable tools of
the mine owners who, themselves, if
anybody does, deserve the gibbet.
Meyer, Haywood and their comrades
had no more to do with the assassina-
ton Of Steunenberg than [ had: the
charge is CHASTITY lie, a criminal
calumny and is only an excuse to muir
der men who are too rigidly honest to
betray their trust and too courageous
to succumb to threat and intimidation.
Labor leaders that cringe before the
plutocracy and do its bidding are
apotheosized: those that refuse must
be foully murdered.
Personally and intimately do I
know Meyer, Haywood, Pettibone, ST.
John and their official co-workers. and
[ will stake my life on their honor and
integrity; and that is precisely the
crime, for which, according to the
words OF the slimmy ''sleuth'' who
''worked up the casen against them,
s'they shall never leave Idaho alive. y
Well, by the gods, if they don't the
governors ofIdaho and Colorado and
their masters from Wall Street, New
York, to the Rocky Mountains had
better prepare to follow them.
Nearly twenty years ago the CAPT
talist tyrants put some innocent men
to death for standing up for labor.
They are now going to try it again.
Let them dare.
There have been twenty years of
revolutionary education, agitation
and organization since the Haymarket
tragedy, and if an attempt is made to
repeat it, there will be a revolution
and I will do all in my power to pre-
cipitate it.
II they attempt to murder Meyer,
Haywood and their brothers. million
revolutionists, at least, will meet the M
with guns.
They have done their best and their
worst to crush and enslave US. Their
politicians have betrayed US, their
courts have thrown us into Jail without
trial and their soldiers have shot our
comrades dead in their tracks.
The worm turns at last, and so does
the worker.
Let them dare to execute their devil
ish plot and every state in this union
will resound with the tramp of revo-
luton.
Get ready. comrades, for action. No
other course is left to the working
class. Their courts are closed to us
except to pronounce our doom. To
enter their courts is simply to be
mulcted Of our meagre means an6
bound hand and foot: to have our
eyes plucked out by the vultures that
fatten upon our misery.