The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-03-28

Mcguire transaction, when those
famous officers of yours, some Of
whom are known traitors acting
the part of Judas, caused the hang.
ing of fourteen men in one day.
Does Debs forget the cruelties OF
the bull pens of Occur d. Alene and
Colorado, and the reign of terror OF
recent date? He knows the officers
OF the Western Federation of Miners
and the dastardly and Internal an
archists like Peabody and Bell and
the Pinkerton class. Your officers.
who cursed the constitution, de-
stroyed our women and children, de-
ported our citizens and brothers in
the dead of night in the face of JUS
tice and morality.
In the case at bar did not those
animated brutes arrest Meyer and
his companions, transport them from
their homes. bound in chains, with
out trial by Judge or jury, and do
you call that infamy justice and
morality?
Are not your officers the murder
ers, the perjured assassins, the per-
petrators of crime?
How could Debs, or mortal flesh.
be silent when he reviews the past,
sees the present and anticipates a
tyrannical and bloody policy for
every wage Garner who dares to raise
voice for the uplifting of labor.
Mr.. Editor, let us throw aside our
yellow spectacles and prejudice and
demonstrate the fact that our coun-
try Is not, but ought to be "the land
of the free, the home of the brave"
Let the press help the workers,
not by the bayonet, but by the bal
lot, to overthrow the thieves and
grafters.
They are the officers for plutocracy,
the anarchists who deceive and en-
slave the workers in defiance to law,
order or. morality. They are syco-
plants, the blood-sucking parasites
the ruin of our country and the de-
generacy of humanity. No wonder
Debs cries, AROUSE, you slaves!"
| / consider him a man, every inch
of him, the highest type of human
| ity and a socialist in reality. He feels
righteous Indignation bubbling in
his soul against an accursed plutoc-
racy, which, like the grave, is never
satisfied. Our editors say that Debs
talks treason. When our fathers
were about to sign the declaration of
independence, towards said it was
treason, and they would be all
hanged together. Benjamin Frank
lin remarked, in part: "Most as
suredly! If we don't hang together
We will hang separately"
Patrick Henry, in the Virginia as
sembly, shaking his fist in the face
of the well-fed planters who were
hating between loyalty and their
own interests, shouted: "Tarquin and
Caesar had each his Brutus; Charles
I. had his Cromwell, and George
III" he was interrupted by cries
of Treason" from the terrified tor
les. Later many of them shouldered
their guns and fought for the idea
which Patrick Henry expressed. But
he was no traitor.
Down the line of history John
Brown, saw the injustice of the
system of chattel slavery and the
cruelties inflicted on the helpless
people. and without court or Judge.
John Brown at Harper's Ferry
sprang to the front and proposed to
4 free the slaves and abolish aristoc-
racy. He was captured and executed
as traitor to the slave power gov
eminent. The officers of that power
/ looked on and applauded But later
on millions of those who shouted
traitor shouldered their guns and
marched to the tune of John
Browns Body" and the traitor be-
came a patriot.
4 So it may be of our noble Eugene
V. Debs, or like Robert Emmett,
some one in the far away future will
write his epitaph.. Let the press
call it treason, for it will, and it may
be so against the capitalist state and
masters of the machine who recog-
nize no law, but the workers Will
take their place in the battle front
and will sweep the grafters and cap
italists from power like the Phar-
oahs and Neros of Egypt and of an
cient Rome. If the capitalists be-
gin a revolution like the mobiles in
France in 1897, as did the Tories in
1876, and the slave aristocracy in
America in 1860, the educated pol
itical and industrial working class
will meet them on the battle field
and they will win. Then show us
more excellent way. Let the swagger
and buncomb game go on. concoct-
ed by those sleuths and thugs and
henchmen of capital and its dirty
press and the working class will fur
nish all the victims, but let the work
ers remember that so long as the
powers of government remain in the
hands of capitalist masters the hum
4 iliation and insult heaped upon
Meyer and his companions will
continue to be dealt out to all who
dare to do battle in the interest OF
the workers.
The yillany of those ruffian Of
ficers will tend TO destroy the rev.
erance for capitalistic government
and respect for capitalistic law.