Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-03-14
Debs Would Start Something.

Eugene V O0OUS, tuo uu4u0nstOu0u
social leader in America, has u revolu'
tionary article on the subject Of the
Moye r Haywood murder trials in the
last number Of Appeal to Reason, pub
lished at Girard, Kan, March TO-
That paper is, perhaps, the socialists
organ.
Mr.. Debs was the candidate Of the
socialists for president Of the United
States in 1900, when he polled 1854
votes, and he was nominee Of the
socialists for president in 1904, when
his vote was 4O2,2S6.
An excerpt from bis TRADE follows
1.-THE latest and boldest stroke oil
the plut ocracy, but for the blindness
of the people, would have startled the
nation.
"Murder has been plotted and IL
about to be executed in the name and
under the form OF law.
"Men who will not yield to corrup-
ton and browbeating must be am
pushed, spirited away and murdered.
"This is the edict OF the Nine Own.
ers' Association OF the western states
and their Standard Oil hackers and
pals in Wall street, New York.
"These CORY besked vultures are to
pluck out the heart Of resistance to
their tyranny and robbery, that labor
may be stark naked at their mercy.
"Charles Meyer and VIM. D. Hay.
wood Of the Western Federation Of
Miners, and their official colleagues
men, all Of them, and every inch Of
them-are charged with the assass.
inatiou OF Ex-Governor Frank Stusn.
nenberg Of Idaho, who simply reaped
what he had sown, - q mere subter-
fuge to pounos upon them in secret,
rush them out Of the state by special
train, under hsvy guard, clap them in
prison, convict them upon the pur-
chased, perjured testimony Of Williams,
ane then strsngle them to death with
the hangman's moose.
1T is a foul plot; . damnable con-
spiracy: q hellish outrage.
The governors Of Idaho and Colors.
do say that they have the proofs to
convict. They are brazen falsifiers
and venal Williams, the miserable tools
Of the mIneowners who, themselves,
if anybody does, deserve the sibbet.
They have driven us to the wall,
and now let us rally our forces and
face them and fight.
"If they attempt to murder Meyer,
Haywood and their brothers, q mil.
lion revolutionists, at least, will meet
them with guns.
"They have done their beat 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
thot our comrades dead in their tracks,
The worm turns at last and 90 does
the worker.
"Let them dare to exeeute their
devilish plot and every state in this
Union will resound with the tramp oil
revolution.
"Get ready, comrades, for action
No other course lie 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 meager means and
bound hand and foot; to have our eyes
plucked out by vultures that fatten
upon our misery.
Capitalist courts never have done,
and never will do, anything for the
working class
"Whatever is done we must do our
selves, and if we stand, up like men
from the Allan tic to the Pacific and
from Canada to the gull, We will strike
terror to their cowsrdly hearts and
they will but be too eager to relax
their grip upon our throats and beat
Q swift retreat.
1--WE will watch every move they
make and in the meantime prepare
for action.
"A special revolutionary convention
OF the proletariat at Chicago, or some
other central point. would be in order,
and # extreme measures are required
q geneal strike could be ordered and
industry paralyzed as q preliminary
to a general uprising.
nj the I!utCcrats begin the program
we will end it,"