The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-04


struetion of property and personal lib
erty will grow until the burden cannot
be moved and the trust magnates can
force their will without limit.
To boil this down
Demand of your candidates that they
as Bishop McCabe says, the
100 per cent Of the people and not the
10 per cent made up from some organ
izatlon. The people can elect the free
man sure if they let the facts be known.
Next, don It fail to 90 individually or
in body to demand Of the newspaper
that wants your patronage, that it print
free citizens as it does of the proceed
ings' and favorable comment On the
labor trust. Then ask the advertisers
in the papers afraid to publish this ar
ticle why they support sheet of that
character.
Do these. things and you will discover
you have the power to preserve your
own personal liberty, the freedom Of
your townsmen and the continued pros
perity Of your community. But you
must act.
Real genuine slavery is here with
its grip on our people. We see the
same fear in denouncing it as existed
among the people in the days of ne
gro slavery. The cowardice of politi-
clans and press, fearing to stand upon
erty, fearing for votes and patronage.
But they have temporized and compro-
missed too long and history repeats it
self. Whenever in the affairs of a ma
ton one class enslaves another, fear
always begets cowardice. Then there
is attempt to compromise with the
wrong, and that sin of compromise is
such crime against the eternal prin-
ciple of human liberty that it brings
increased tyranny, oppression and mis-
cry by the spread of that slavery. It
was so before the civil war-it is SO
now. Every day sees new victims.
American citizens marooned, impressed
and subjected to the slavery of the la
Dor trust. These victims frequently
struggle to free themselves. If they
fight hard enough they may succeed but
many cannot. Will you stand idly by
and see this wrong 90 ONT Please read
this article over again and carefully
get the facts clearly in your mind. and
then as you value wour native land and
the freedom of your person and chill
dren, ACT. Demand of your newspaper
that it stand for the common people
and demand of your candidate for pub
ests Of the masses. the great morgan
lied majority with their needs and
rights, and not the selfish interests of
any organization made up of the few
to prey off the many.
Extend to men the right to organize
with capital or labor or both for pro-
lection and betterment. But when acts
of tyranny, oppression and slavery are
committed and the slightest attempt
right to work, the right to buy and sell
or to exercise your freedom and liberty
in any manner given under our consti-
tuition, yield not one fraction Of it.
Make your battle then and there. A
day Of contest with the black spirit of
tyranny right on the start is better than
months or years Of slavery, with the
bitter war with that spirit. fattened
and strengthened by the loot of long
| feeding.
It is a most serious matter where
even one American brother has been
robbed of his liberty and freedom.
what then shall we do when confronted
with the abuse and oppression of thou
sands of our own people. 1t is time
for some of You to search out your too
long hidden nag and, in contemplation,
send your minds back to the time when
the old sires marched and toiled, until
tyrants' bullets cut the arteries and
stripes Of red washed across the white
banner, then in field of blue were set
the stars, with as high purpose as the
magnificent machinery of the planets,
set by that same God in the royal pur-
pie of his heaven. Those old grand
| fathers were sent out by the impulses
of the Infinite Father to win back the
lost crown of human liberty, the best
gift to his children.
| With it came to us noble flag to be
ever held as a symbol and reminder Of
that crown so dearly won back after
having been lost by apathy. cowardice
and compromise with the eternal prin-
ciples.
/. Rhat old flag bears 4 message to us
from our grandfathers, and stronger
still from the infinite father who in
spired them. In solemn, tones it de-
mands that we, stand together now and
always whenever one single American
son be threatened with the loss Of his
blood bought inheritance. his persona!
liberty. s
We may shirk, offer excuse, hesitate.
pander, and preyarieate, but the cter-
nal God Of justice who moulded that
crown of liberty will exact a point of
punishment for each and every point Of
cowardly shrinking from the PROMPT
and nncompromising defense of the her-
itage.
| Slavery is rampant in our midst. and
pleading voices vibrate about the closed
ears and hidden heads of Mongrels. Ty-
rants. Slaves and Freemen and will not
be still. Those spirit voices of dead
fathers and the cries of their helpless
children blend with the message woven
thru the old banner Of our sires, and
call, and call, and CALL God help the
helpless when the Americans become
blanted and stupefed with indifference.